Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attend for the same reason. And even as the men in Casablanca talked unity, Radio Baghdad broadcast new testimony that Nasser had backed the army officers who plotted last March's Mosul rising (see below) against Iraq's Premier Kassem-to which Cairo replied by charging that Iraqi pilots shepherd Israeli ships through the Shatt-al-Arab...
...Iraqi Officers Executed...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 20--Nineteen Iraqi Army officers and four civilians were executed today as enemies of Premier Abdel Karim Kassem's regime, Baghdad Radio announced. The officers were involved in a revolt at the northern military headquarters of Mosul last March 8 or were accused of plotting against Kassem...
...shifting politics of the Middle East can make the best of bedfellows transients, or the worst of enemies useful, in short order. Concern over Iraq had brought them together: Nasser's fear of an Iraq that challenged his all-Arab pretensions, Hussein's distaste for the Iraqi regime that came to power by killing his King-cousin. In a move calculated to enhance Nasser's claim to be the friend of all Arab nations and to bolster Hussein on his precarious throne, the colonel and the King made up, agreed to try to be friends as they...
...Communist-dominated Student Union. The maps divided Baghdad into sectors "for the purpose of dragging through the streets the sons of the people. The students marked some of the houses 'suspect' and others 'for dragging.' " Kassem's wrath next turned to the Red-dominated Iraqi trade unions, which he accused of engaging too heavily in politics. Almost as a footnote, he referred to another riotous occasion-the Mosul uprising last March in which a notorious Communist lawyer "buried 17 persons alive...