Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign alliances," the gaunt, black-browed Iraqi general told a press conference, after his victory over army rivals who favored a merger with the United Arab Republic. "The Baghdad Pact is less than a shadow. The word 'ally' applies only to Arab sister countries in our eyes...
Then he went on to take positions on the two problems that currently most agitate Arabs everywhere: "Had I been able to do so, I would have joined the Algerian liberation army. Every week one or two Iraqi aircraft carry arms and ammunition to the Algerians, and we shall send them more." Of Israel: "Be sure that every foot of usurped territory will be restored by Iraq in cooperation with the Arab sister states...
...When the Iraqi army killed King Feisal and seized power last July, General Karim Kassem threw his arms around his top lieutenant, Colonel Abdul Salem Mohammed Aref, and called him "my brother in revolt." Others, presumably including Aref himself, decided that the hot-eyed Aref might one day play Nasser to Kassem's Naguib. Last week a prosecutor at one of Baghdad's show trials revealed, almost in passing, that Aref has already been tried and convicted of treason...
Aref, a thrusting young Arab nationalist, fell because he tried to force Iraq into a quick union with Nasser's United Arab Republic. An Iraqi nationalist before all, Premier Kassem had tried to divest his friend by exiling him to the ambassadorship to West Germany. When Aref returned without permission at an awkward time, the Premier ordered his arrest. Kassem had decided personally, said the prosecutor, not to divulge "details" of Aref's trial, "in the interests of Arab solidarity." Nor was any sentence made public, though for treason there is usually only one punishment, and that quite...
...paternal tones Kassem urged members of the Iraqi Students Union to stop wasting time on political activities (riots, etc.) and get back to their textbooks. Less paternally, he issued tough new orders to the Popular Resistance Force, the Red-infiltrated militia whose members have been careering through Baghdad making political "arrests." Henceforth, said Kassem, the P.R.F. would function only as a reserve force "under direct military orders," and any of its members who tried to interfere with "the freedom of citizens" would be subject to "the severest punishment." Explaining why his new orders were necessary, Kassem was warily unspecific...