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...cockpit of superpower rivalry. "Whether it has been declared or not," said Iraqi Defense Minister Adnan Khairallah early on, "it is in fact war." The struggle escalated quickly and as it did, spread to key oil facilities on both sides-Basra, Kirkuk and Mosul in Iraq, Abadan and Kharg island in Iran. With thick black smoke pluming from bombed tank farms and refineries, petroleum-consuming nations around the globe anxiously calculated and then recalculated the implications. Said one U.S. official in tallying up the damage: "Once oil installations became fair game, the stakes became much higher for everyone...
...force launched strikes against at least 16 different targets in Iraq. A principal one was Baghdad, the capital, as well as the military garrisons in the sprawling city of 2.8 million people along the banks of the Tigris River. Iranian planes also attacked the northern oil cities of Mosul, Kirkuk and Erbil. Iraqi gunners sent up barrages of antiaircraft fire and ground-to-air missiles that lit up the skies and brought down a reported 67 Iranian planes...
...Crusaders, variously estimated at 70,000 to 600,000 strong, poured into Asia Minor, took the quarreling Turkish sultans by surprise, defeated them, and then captured Antioch, the city of 400 towers, by assault. Besieged in Antioch by a superior army of the atabeg of Mosul, the Crusaders were saved by a miracle of their own faith. Fired by the conviction that an old, rusty piece of iron unearthed beneath an Antioch church was the lance with which the Roman soldier had pierced the side of the crucified Christ, the Crusaders, half-starved and crazed with religious fanaticism, swept...
There was plenty of that. Half of Iraq's army was tied down by a rebellion of the Kurdish tribesmen north and east of Mosul. Kassem began to grow suspicious of Iraq's Communists; after a series of Red-inspired strikes, Kassem jailed hundreds of Reds and condemned to death 28 Communist leaders...
Barzani began last summer by leading his hotheads in raids on isolated Iraqi police outposts, recently shifted his rebellion into high gear after cutting down operations during the winter. Launching a major offensive at the end of March, the Kurds attacked army battalions at Dohuk and Zakho north of Mosul, leaving 50 dead and 150 wounded. When Kassem ordered air strikes near Sulaimaniya against Kurdish villages packed with women and children, the rebels retaliated by sacking some 200 Arab towns, raping the women inhabitants. In cities held by the government, the Kurds have embarked on S.A.O.-style assassination campaigns...