Word: iraqization
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...Though all defense plans assumed logistic connections across Iraq, and the Iraqi rebels apparently captured a cache of the pact's plans in Baghdad, including lists of agents in the Arab world. Radio Cairo, whose reputation for veracity assays amazing low, has already begun to broadcast what it declares is information from the seized records...
...fanned from Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, pleaded that the U.S. not recognize the new Iraqi regime "at least, for the time being." It was Murphy's unpleasant duty to inform Hussein of two hard facts: 1) no U.S. troops will be sent to Jordan; 2) U.S. recognition of Iraq was already decided upon. Then Murphy bid his host goodbye, drove off to Jerusalem and passed through the Mandelbaum Gate into Israel...
...carefully calculated to form a picture of a government bent solely on reform and wholly without opposition. Last week, after properly waiting until hundreds of notables, led by the Duke of Gloucester, had crowded into Queen's Chapel of the Savoy in London for a memorial service to Iraq's assassinated King Feisal II, Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Premier Nuri asSaid, Her Majesty's British Government officially recognized the new regime that had overthrown and murdered these friends of the West. Next day the U.S. did the same, and promptly sent Troubleshooter Robert Murphy...
...including the director of oil affairs, who probably knows more about the business than anyone else in the country. The present Development Minister is a 29-year-old engineer with a reputation among rebels based largely on a tract he once wrote denouncing the old board, whose plans made Iraq the most promising land of the Middle East...
Among Arab leaders, Iraq's late Nuri asSaid probably led all the rest in the bitterness of his public excoriations of Israel. But fate appears to have played a last weird trick on the murdered Iraqi strongman. Out of Jerusalem last week came a strange story: Nuri Pasha's only survivor may be a 16-year-old Jewish boy now living in an Israeli border kibbutz...