Word: jamali
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having offered the mob bread, Kassem last week supplied it with a circus: the windup of the farcical trial of Fadhil Jamali, ex-Foreign Minister and, on one occasion. Prime Minister of Iraq in the old regime of Nuri asSaid. Fadhil Jamali, 55, an honest, simple-living pro-Western politician with an American wife and three children, had no chance at all. Of the five members of the military tribunal, only one had any experience in law. The trial sessions were broadcast on radio and TV, and held at night to ensure a packed courtroom, where staged demonstrations against...
...Jamali was allowed to make a defense speech against a hodgepodge of charges that ranged from "insulting Nasser" to "squandering public money on plots inspired by the imperialists," to "failing to be anti-Jewish" (a marked absurdity to those who remembered his ability in the U.N. to match any other Arab in anti-Israeli invective). With dignity and courage, Jamali said he had favored Arab unity but not under Nasser, nor by Nasser's sleazy methods. Jamali had supported Iraq's membership in the Baghdad Pact because he saw only two possibilities for a modern state, either "strength...
...sentence: death by hanging for Jamali and three others. On hearing the verdict, Jamali seemed almost to lose his balance, then leaned wearily on the railing of the prisoner's box. An assistant prosecutor bawled: "Long live justice! Long live the republic!" Out on the Baghdad streets, the mob howled its joy, clamored for even more death sentences. The mob was clearly closing in on General Kassem, who alone has the power of clemency. The U.S. and Britain felt horror and shock at the verdict (they had expected a prison term), but knew that any public statement by them...
Glitter Gone. The new regime is still wreaking its vengeance on the old. Last week the government prosecutor demanded the head of U.S.-educated ex-Premier Fadhil Jamali. Jamali's chief crime: taking Iraq into the Baghdad Pact. Cried the prosecutor: "God ordained that we should have one head left out of those destroyed at the hands of the people. God be praised for these blessed hours in which the enemy of the people stands in the prisoner's dock before the People's Court...
...Sole Purpose . . ." At the start, Henry Cabot Lodge was painfully on the defensive. He began with a bit of dramatics, which, as things turned out, proved unfortunate, by reporting the murder of Iraq's former Prime Minister and U.N. Delegate Fadhil Jamali. "Only a few weeks ago he was here with us. We heard his voice. We rejoiced in his humor. Now we learn that he was not only murdered but that his body was actually dragged through the streets of Baghdad."* Then, doggedly, but with difficulty. Lodge tried to get around the touchy point that...