Word: kassem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAIRO, Egypt, March 22--President Gamal Abdel Nasser charged today that Iraq's Premier Abdel Karim Kassem refused to join with the United Arab Republic in a "decisive battle" against Israel late last year...
...decided to enter a decisive battle against Israel if aggression continued," Nasser declared. "We then asked Kassem, under the terms of our military agreement, to send Iraqi army units, but Kassem refused. We knew we would be alone if we entered a conflict with Israel...
Sooner or later, the situation in Iraq was bound to explode. All the inflammatory ingredients were there: increasing Communist control of the streets, continuing dissatisfaction in the country, restlessness in the army over the course Iraqi Soldier-Dictator Karim Kassem was taking. Last week the explosion came-and it was premature...
Arab nationalism in Iraq centers around the northern oil city of Mosul, on the banks of the Tigris. Surrounded by the powerful and hostile Kurds, whom the Communists have been busy infiltrating, Arab zealots in Mosul wanted to join Nasser's one big Arab nation, and blamed Kassem for keeping them out. Mosul hardly seemed the place to stage a Communist rally, unless Iraq's wily and wiry strongman wanted to provoke trouble...
Last week, in special trains from Baghdad and in buses from the countryside, thousands of Kassem's supporters, members of the Communist-led "Peace Partisans" movement, converged on Mosul (pop. 200,000), near the ancient Biblical city of Nineveh. Seeing them, the local army commander, stocky, swarthy Colonel Abdel Wahab Shawaf, 40, member of a prominent Iraqi family (his brother is Kassem's Minister of Health) and himself an ardent Arab nationalist, began to fret. After last July's revolution Shawaf had proclaimed: "Naturally, Iraq will become part of the Arab Union." That was not Kassem...