Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coup wrenched Syria from its short-lived merger with Egypt in the United Arab Republic. That left Nasser without a single Arab ally, and surrounded by such virulent enemies as Iraq's Dictator Kassem and the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Then came last month's Iraqi revolution and the overthrow of Kassem. No one could blame Egypt's leader for harking back to old dreams of Arab grandeur, for this new man in Baghdad-President Abdul Salam Aref-was a former Nasser protege dedicated to Pan-Arab unity...
...tommy-gun-waving guard and crowded around Iraq's boss to hear Aref speak freely about the aims and purposes of the new government. He said something about an end to one-man rule, friendship with all Arab states, and the "overcoming of all the difficulties facing the Iraqi people." But he was mysteriously silent about the size or membership of the all-powerful National Council of the Revolutionary Command, which organized and led the revolt against Kassem...
...army. He was promising even greater army purges when last week the rebels struck. After more than ten hours of hard fighting, the Defense Ministry was in ruins and Kassem's disheartened defenders surrendered. Kassem was alive, but only for a little while. The rebel Iraqi radio announced that he had been "tried" on the spot, condemned and, at 90 minutes past noon the next day, stood against a wall and executed...
...hard-pressed kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as well as for the British-protected sheiks of the Persian Gulf. "Kassem has gone; soon Kings Saud and Hussein will go too," said a complacent Egyptian in Cairo. But first, Nasser's supporters were confident that the Iraqi coup would set off a succession of uprisings in neighboring Syria, which has already put down two pro-Nasser revolts since breaking off from Egypt...
Died. Abdul Karim Kassem, 48. Iraqi Premier who seized power in a coup d'état; reportedly in front of a firing squad, after another coup d'état; in Baghdad (see THE WORLD...