Word: mosul
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...austere, aloof and tense Premier, it had been anything but an easy year. He had kept Iraq from a Nasser takeover, despite anxious moments such as the Mosul revolt in March, but only at the cost of accepting more help from the street-organizing Communists than was healthy. In a characteristic compromise last week before the holiday began, Kassem reshuffled his Cabinet, adding three minor-league Communist sympathizers (including Iraq's first woman minister, a practicing gynecologist), but effectively demoting the once powerful fellow-traveling Minister of Economics Ibrahim Kubba to Minister of Agrarian Reform...
...have turned on the television in the middle of a Cabinet session, listened to the colonel's brutal buffooneries and irrelevancies, and murmured: "What a jewel we have here." Last week, with 16 officers and one civilian on trial for their lives, accused of taking part in the Mosul army revolt in March, sheep-eyed, sheep-headed Judge Mahdawi was in sparkling form as he interrupted a witness...
...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...