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Enemies of the Kurds have always had a hard time of it, from Xenophon and his ten thousand Greeks in 400 B.C., through Persians, Mongols, Turks, Crusaders, Arabs and British, up to this year, when the regime of Iraq's Karim Kassem was bled white by the effort to crush one more uprising of the ever-rebellious Kurds...
...last September ousted the centuries-old dynasty of the Imam and installed a "republic" that has ever since been propped up by 20,000 Egyptian troops sent in by Gamal Abdel Nasser. In two bloody days' work last month, Iraqi army officers deposed and killed psychotic Dictator Abdul Karim Kassem. Last week, on a quiet, grey Friday morning, the infection reached Syria...
Broken Bonds. Everyone knew it was coming, from Syria's strongman, General Abdel Karim Zahreddin, down to the lowliest private in the army. When Zahreddin severed Syria's union with Egypt 17 months ago, he had profited from the nation's revulsion against the police state and harsh economic controls imposed by Nasser. But Syrians, passionate believers in Arab unity, also felt guilty about breaking the bonds. Wispy President Nazem El-Koudsi sighed, "The trouble with Syrians is that we are never concerned with just our own problems but with issues affecting all Arabs...
...week after the overthrow of Iraq's Dictator Abdul Karim Kassem. the crack of rifle fire still echoed in Baghdad's Liberation Square. Tanks and armored cars kept stern vigil at every important intersection. Scurrying everywhere were the little squads of men wearing green armbands-ferrets who sought to find and to crush the last remaining opposition to Rebel President Abdul Salam Aref and his mysterious revolutionary backers...
...Western diplomats. But anyone who had witnessed the perilous passage of other, earlier revolts with laudable ambitions, could only hope that the rebels would stop the shooting and start running the country. In the long run, guns will hardly serve the new regime better than they served Abdul Karim Kassem...