Word: mosul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Soviet-inspired agitators shifted their tactics to Mosul in Iraq, head of Britain's Mediterranean oil pipeline. Their threats were backed by a vehement anti-British campaign in Teheran's Russophile newspapers...
Lawrence of. ... Wingate made his name in strange operations. Given the job of catching the Arab marauders who in 1937 were regularly cutting the Haifa-Mosul oil line, he mixed Jewish and British patrols, beat the Arabs at their own game of ambush, won the title of "Lawrence of Judea" (which his cousin, who fought for the Arabs, might have resented). In 1941, in the British campaign against the Italians in Ethiopia, Wingate directed a strategy of bluff, propaganda and native revolt. With 1,000 Sudanese and 2,000 Ethiopians, he effectively snarled up some 40,000 Italians...
...contains the rich Mosul oil fields...
...Vichy French forces who will defend Syria number about 45,000, no more than a third of whom are white. They are said to be short of equipment, oil (since the British took Mosul) and morale. The invading British began to test this alleged morale shortage by first giving towns and garrisons a chance to surrender, turning the heat on if they would...
...British were not overly sanguine. They thought El-Gailani's troops might withdraw to the north of Iraq, to the area which makes hot and barren Iraq so worthy of a scrap: the oil fields around Mosul. Last week London reported that strong forces of German airborne troops, complemented with bombers and fighters, had made their way across Syria and were well established in the oil-bearing area...