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...midnight press conference in Baghdad's Defense Ministry, Iraq's "sole leader,'' Major General Abdul Karim Kassem...
...encompassing parts of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. The present uprising, described in a recent group of articles in the New York Times by Dana Adams Schmidt, has two specific objectives: the creation of a Kurdish nation in Northern Iraq and the destruction of the Iraqi regime of Premier Abdul Karim Kassim...
...revolt, last April demanded an autonomous Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Led by Red-leaning Mustafa Barzani, a onetime mullah (religious teacher) who spent twelve years of exile in Russia, Kurdish rebels have seized control of the northeast corner of Iraq, seriously imperiling the autocratic regime of Premier Abdul Karim Kassem...
...ancestors had always tilled for the enrichment of others. Brightly dressed sword dancers swung their great curved sabers in a fierce ballet. A spare, bearded mullah on the edge of the crowd intoned verses from the Koran. The peasants greeted each statement by Minister of Agrarian Reform Ahmed Abdel Karim with a rhythmic chant: "Down with feudalism! Down with imperialism! Down with dictatorship! Down with Communism! Down with Nasser! Down with Nasser! Down with Nasser!" The mullah shrilled his enthusiastic agreement: "In the name of Allah, chase out the demons...
...dismissed as merely another example of Kurdish cussedness. The rebels have moved steadily south out of the Zagros Mountains to within 70 miles of Baghdad, now have a quasi hold on sizable parts of Iraq. Their continued victories have also aroused non-Kurdish, democratic opponents of Premier Karim Kassem. The opposition ridicules Kassem's claim that the revolt is the fault of "British imperialists and their American stooges." blames his own bumbling for provoking the Kurds into war. Buffeted within and without, Kassem's regime is in danger of collapse...