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gulfnews.com
March 22, 2018
Most date back to Iraq's royal era, but there are also a few items from the early days of the republic that followed after general Abdel Karim Kassem toppled the monarchy. Nothing is on offer from the decades of dictatorship under Saddam Hussain. For the Iraqis hunting out their own souvenir of the past, theÃâà...
Hurriyet Daily News
March 18, 2018
Most date back to Iraq's royal era, but there are also a few items from the early days of the republic that followed after general Abdel Karim Kassem toppled the monarchy. Nothing is on offer from the decades of dictatorship under Saddam Hussein. For the Iraqis hunting out their own souvenir of the past, theÃâà...
The Intercept
March 11, 2018
Abdel Karim Kassem in 1959, and Fidel Castro, repeatedly. Overshadowing those failures were the agency's successful participation in the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba in 1961, Vietnam's Diem brothers in 1963, and Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973. Only in 1976 did President GeraldÃâà...
Newsweek
December 15, 2016
According to The New York Times, the CIA also supported Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq because they viewed his competitor, Abdel Karim Kassem, to be a “grave threat.” We all know how this story ended. Recent events across the Middle East and Europe have been no different. The U.S. StateÃâà...
American Spectator
May 20, 2015
Forty years ago, the Central Intelligence Agency, under President John F. Kennedy, conducted its own regime change in Baghdad, carried out in collaboration with Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi leader seen as a grave threat in 1963 was Abdel Karim Kassem, a general who five years earlier had deposed theÃâà...
PRI
September 14, 2014
The change ushered in a chaotic and violent decade. By this time, Saddam Hussein had joined the pan-Arabist Baath Party. In 1959 he and fellow Baathists tried to assassinate Iraq's new military leader General Abdel Karim Kassem. The attempt failed, and Saddam Hussein was forced to flee the country.
RTE.ie
December 30, 2006
Oct 1956 - Joins uprising against pro-British royalist rulers and then becomes a militant in the pan-Arab, secular Baath Party. Oct 1959 - A year after overthrow of monarchy, takes part in attempt to kill Prime Minister Abdel-Karim Kassem. Flees abroad. Feb 1963 - Returns to Baghdad when the Baath PartyÃâà...
