Word: syrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Mahdawi (interrupting): Yes, he will reject it, but when the Syrian people are emancipated [from the U.A.R.], we shall all be there...
...another of his anti-Communist speeches broadcast from Damascus, capital of the Syrian region of the U.A.R., Nasser today recalled a series of Syrian-Israel border clashes...
...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...
...unity. Punning on Kassem's name, which in Arabic means "splitter," he shouted that "Iraq's splitter" had fought Arab brotherhood more viciously than the hated Nuri asSaid himself. Iraqi planes, firing on the thousands of defeated rebels and tribesmen fleeing for their lives, had bombed a Syrian border village. His own air force, Nasser said righteously, could have retaliated with blows twice as strong but refrained "because the villages we would have hit are Arab villages...
...United Arab Republic source in Damascus reported Iraqi planes strafed a Syrian village...