Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tibetan Revolt Quelled...
...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's mob chanted: "Death...
...crucial moment of the revolt came early next morning. Shawaf sent two young pilots in old piston-engined Furies to bomb Radio Baghdad's transmitting station twelve miles north of the capital. They did little damage. But four Iraqi air force planes loyal to Kassem counterattacked Shawaf's top headquarters on a bluff above Mosul. First they bombed it and then came in low to strafe. Six or seven officers were killed. Shawaf, wounded, staggered out of his command post, trying to bandage himself. One of his sergeants, figuring the game was up, finished him off with machine...
Egyptians Go Home. Kassem had won, but he had yet to pay the bill for his victory. Until last week's revolt, the army had served Kassem as a balance against the growing Communist influence in the streets. Now the army could no longer be fully trusted, and Kassem was more than before beholden to the Communists, whether he wanted to be or not. In the streets of Baghdad, Kassem was still plainly the hero of the hour...
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...