Word: kassem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apparently, Iraq's General Abdul Karim Kassem had thought he was only offering an Arab pleasantry when he announced his intent to "liberate" oil-rich Kuwait. He was amazed when alarm bells went off all over the Middle East. At Sheik Abdullah as Salim as Sabah's cry for help, Britain in a matter of hours poured 3,000 crack troops, with their tanks and troop carriers, into Kuwait from bases in Kenya, Aden and Bahrein. A British aircraft carrier and a fleet of warships appeared offshore; another flotilla steamed toward the area from the Mediterranean. After...
Scolded smartly by Nasser's United Arab Republic for exploding "a foolish smoke bomb," even Kassem started acting as if his invasion threat had been a desert mirage. "Peaceful means," he announced blandly in Baghdad, "will prevail over tanks and planes." Hopping into his bulletproof Russian Zim limousine, Kassem made a jovial, half-hour appearance at U.S. Ambassador John Jernegan's Independence Day reception, where he was escorted inside by ten U.S. marines and ten of his own Czech-armed bodyguards. Seemingly oblivious of his scathing attacks on "imperialist" Britain, Kassem deadpanned: "Our relations with Britain are stronger...
Cold or Cancer? A mercurial, wisecracking autocrat who seems less like a hero than an inspired eccentric to most of his countrymen, Kassem brays nonetheless that he is "a man England won't be able to beat." He explained: "The British planned to get all the Arabs against me as the aggressor. But, instead, I have united all the Arabs against imperialism. The Arab peoples are already with us. Soon the Arab governments will also be with...
...which has claims on Muscat and Oman as well. Iran claims Bahrein, and Iraq's rulers have always coveted the desert sheikdom of Kuwait, currently the richest country per acre and per capita in the Middle East. But nobody ever took the claim seriously until General Abdul Karim Kassem, "sole leader" of Iraq, announced during the course of a three-hour tirade that he was bent upon "liberating" Ku wait and returning it to the Iraqi "homeland." Upon hearing the news, Britain prudently dispatched two frigates and the aircraft carrier Bulwark to Kuwait, un loaded Centurion tanks...
...most important voice backing Nasser came from Iraq's Major General Abdul Karim Kassem, who, like Nasser, has accepted lavish Soviet aid. Premier Kassem last week fired the entire executive committee of the Iraq Press Association on the vague ground that they were "serving Communism and deriving their inspiration exclusively from Sputniks." Taking over as the new press-association president, pro-Nasser Publisher Al Haj Taha al Fayez rapped out an angry editorial in his daily Al-Fajr al-Jadid: "The sun of the Communists has set. The Communist countries are falling to bits through starvation and ruination...