Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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last week threw down the boldest chal lenge to Western oilmen since Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh expropriated the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. in 1951. Kassem's move : the establishment of a government-owned company to produce and market Iraqi...
...shift his guerrillas to the Eastern Front where he has consistently defeated Kassim's troops. The Kurds, whose total forces number between 12,000 and 15,000 men, have surrounded an Iraq army of 12,000 men and now control over half of the 25,000 square miles of Iraqi Kurdistan...
Although the Kurd's present rate of advance might seem to indicate that Kassim has little chance of withstanding them, all is not in their favor. Barzani's guerrilla tactics, which have cost the Iraqi army forty men for each Kurdish casualty, will be much less effective on the open plains before Baghdad where Kassim can bring his armament into play. Moreover, Mustafa does not have enough men to occupy any sizable towns. The Iraqi air force is taking a rising toll of women and children through its attacks on Kurdish villages, and this pressure may hamper further Kurdish advance...
Thus, although judging by its present debacle the Iraqi army will probably lose most of Northern Iraq to the Kurds, the tribesmen will have great difficulty advancing south of the mountains. An eventual compromise solution between the Kurds and the central government is likely, although neither can at present agree on satisfactory terms...
...revolt may have several disturbing consequences. First, it has weakened and will further weaken Kassim's regime, perhaps causing its eventual collapse. Were the Baghdad government to fall, a Communist or Communist-controlled regime might easily come to power. If Mullah Mustafa succeeds in creating an autonomous Iraqi Kurdish state, the three million Kurds in Turkey and Iran will probably wish to join him. Such a movement towards a larger independent Kurdistan would seriously disrupt the internal affairs of our closest allies. Moreover, any emerging Kurdish state will make an already seething Middle East even more unstable...