Word: abdel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAIRO, Egypt, March 22--President Gamal Abdel Nasser charged today that Iraq's Premier Abdel Karim Kassem refused to join with the United Arab Republic in a "decisive battle" against Israel late last year...
Last week, in special trains from Baghdad and in buses from the countryside, thousands of Kassem's supporters, members of the Communist-led "Peace Partisans" movement, converged on Mosul (pop. 200,000), near the ancient Biblical city of Nineveh. Seeing them, the local army commander, stocky, swarthy Colonel Abdel Wahab Shawaf, 40, member of a prominent Iraqi family (his brother is Kassem's Minister of Health) and himself an ardent Arab nationalist, began to fret. After last July's revolution Shawaf had proclaimed: "Naturally, Iraq will become part of the Arab Union." That was not Kassem...
...subservient to Egypt. The impulse came naturally to Iraqis, but Communist cheerleaders organized their cries for them. Nasser's United Arab Republic had fomented the Mosul rebellion, cried Kassem, ordering the expulsion of nine Egyptian diplomats. "The curtain is raised," trumpeted Baghdad's daily Al Thawra. "Abdel Nasser is revealed as the great plotter, enemy, dictator, and shedder of blood. Those who proclaim pan-Arabism and raise Abdel Nasser to the rank of prophet have been exposed. Gamal Abdel Nasser has sent arms to Mosul for fighting because he wanted to annex Iraq...
DAMASCUS, Syria, March 13--The Reds are converting Iraq into a base for operations in the Arab world, President Gamal Abdel Nasser warned a massive anti-communist rally today...
Nasser renewed his attack on Premier Abdel Karim Kassem in a biting discussion of the Mosul rebellion before flag-waving student demonstrators at the presidential palace in Damascus...