Word: mosul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago Mahdawi's show-which is conducted in Iraq's former Hall of Parliament, with spectators occupying the former Deputies' benches and Mahdawi and his fellow judges lolling on the speaker's rostrum-put four airmen in the dock for taking part in the Mosul revolt. It was a gala evening, witnessed by TIME Correspondent William McHale. Two hours beforehand every seat was filled; hundreds of ticketholders were turned away. The highlights of the performance...
...four demands on him. The first was to denounce the Baghdad Pact, as he has just done. The second was to purge his army and his administration of people whom the Communists object to. This too is going on. The Reds demand vengeance against all who participated in the Mosul rebellion (TIME, March 23). Of the original junta of two dozen army officers who overthrew the monarchy, five have now been purged. About 120 officers above the rank of major have reportedly been retired. Thousands of civil servants have been removed from their posts...
Fast as the Communists could pass the ammunition, Radio Baghdad fired back that Nasser was the honorary President of the Egyptian Freemasons' lodge and hence, naturally enough, a partner of Zionism. Who was to blame for the unsuccessful Mosul uprising? "The blood of Mosul's free men will haunt you, Gamal," railed the Baghdad announcer. Taunted Radio Cairo: "Iraqis now call their government 'the rule of the Red butcher...
...called "the largest Arab anti-Communist demonstration ever seen." The crowd had been whipped up by Friday sermons in the mosques. It was given a martyr's pageant of its own, similar to the one in Baghdad: a lugubrious cortege for a wounded Iraqi captain who had fled Mosul when the revolt failed, and died in a Damascus hospital. Nasser crowed that "the banners of Arab nationalism" would fly one day over the land now ruled by Kassem: Mosul would "not be the last rebellion so long as there remain in Iraq dictatorship, atheism and terrorism." Nasser...
Family Quarrel. The Russians thus had a continuing hold on both Nasser and Kassem. The British, radiating a little more optimism than perhaps the circumstances warranted, still talked of Kassem's capacity to resist, if need be, the Communist help he depended upon to crush the Mosul revolt. (So long as Baghdad keeps independent of Cairo, the British think they can save their valuable oil principality of Kuwait from falling to Nasser.) Washington's reaction was to take no sides in what it called an Arab "family quarrel." Nasser's disenchantment with the Communists may now have...