Word: shammars
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There was very little potential on view when al-Yawer assumed the presidency in June. He was a last-minute compromise candidate; as a member of the Shammar tribe, which includes Shi'ites and Sunnis, he was acceptable to both. In the first months of his tenure al-Yawer was rarely seen or heard in Baghdad, overshadowed by the tough-talking Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi. Some criticized al-Yawer for spending too much time in other Arab capitals. But those weren't pleasure trips. Says a Western diplomat in Baghdad: "If you asked the leaders of neighboring countries who they...
...camp so that his countrymen could be summoned to his side. "O great people," cried the new voice of Radio Mosul, "rise and kill the dictator who has betrayed the revolution's aims!" Knowing which tribesmen in the vicinity could be counted on, Shawaf sent word to the Shammar tribesmen, Bedouins who roam the countryside near the Syrian border. In thousands, the Shammars, clad in long woollen skirts and white headdress bound in black, drifted into Mosul...
...days' wild shooting and looting, three Americans huddled in the Station Hotel bar to save being torn to pieces by the mobs. At the government's call, the non-Arabic Kurdish tribesmen had poured into Mosul to carry the battle to their ancient foes, the skirted Shammar warriors. The Kurds were easily identifiable by their baggy trousers, wide cummerbunds and fringed headgear. They spotted Sheik Ahmed Ajil, paramount chief of the Shammars, riding in a car and killed both him and his driver. They hung the stripped bodies by the heels from a bridge across the Tigris. From...
...States of Arabia: Kingdom of Iraq; French Mandate of Syria; Kingdom of Hejaz; Emirate of Nejd_and Hasa; Emirate of Jebel Shammar; Principals of Asir; Imamate of Yemen; British Protectorate of Aden; Sultanate of Oman; Sultanate of Koweit; Emirate of Kerak; Emirate of Bab-el-Mandab; Emirate of Lahj; State of Hadramaut; Emirate of El-Mohammerah; Emirate of Bahrein...
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