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	Abdul Karim Qassim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abdul Karim Qassim (Arabic: عبد الكريم قاسم) (also various other spellings; including Kassem, Quasim; popularly known as "az-Za’im" (Arabic: الزعيم) "the leader") (1914 - 9 February 1963) was an Iraqi military officer involved in the 1958 military coup d'état.
		During his term in office, he is also blamed to have paved the ground for the Iran-Iraq war.
		On December 18, 1959, Abdul Karim Qassim declared:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdul_Karim_Kassem (977 words)

	Kassem Abdul Karim: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Abdul Aziz Ibn-Saud in 1926 drove the Hashemite...
		KASSEM, ABDUL KARIM abdool karem kassem, 1914 63, Iraqi general and politician.
		A graduate (1934) of...that in July, 1958, overthrew the Iraqi monarchy and established Kassem as premier of the new republic.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/kassem-abdul-karim.jsp?l=K&p=1 (824 words)

	Abdul Karim Qassim - TheBestLinks.com - Abdul Karim Kassem, Baghdad, February 8, Jordan, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Abdul Karim Qassim (or 'Abd al-Karim Kassem) (1914-1963) was an Iraqi military officer involved in the 1958 military coup.
		By 1955 he was a high-ranking military officer and by 1957 he was part of a group in the army opposed to the monarchy.
		He deposed the Iraqi monarchy on July 14, 1958 in a coup in which many royal family members and politicians were killed, and was himself deposed by Abdul Salam Arif on February 8, 1963.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Abdul_Karim_Kassem.html (318 words)

	Kassem, Abdul Karim. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		His outstanding bravery, shown in campaigns against the Kurds and in the Palestinian war of 1948, won him many military decorations.
		He organized the military coup that in July, 1958, overthrew the Iraqi monarchy and established Kassem as premier of the new republic.
		After this, Kassem’s power and influence steadily deteriorated.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ka/Kassem-A.html (146 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Kassem Abdul Karim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kassem, Abdul Karim (1914-1963), premier of Iraq and leader of the military coup that in 1958 overthrew the monarchy of King Faisal II.
		In the months following the coup of July 14, 1958, both the Arab countries and the outer world followed the course of events in Premier Karim Kassim's Iraq with absorbing interest.
		Their hope, on the one hand, was to discover the course likely to be taken by the new regime relative to Arab...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Kassem_Abdul_Karim.html (142 words)

	A Personal Reminiscence of Iraq
		In their judgment, a land with rich agricultural resources and the prospects of a strong petroleum industry was putting its resources into projects that benefited the ruling class and the landowners while keeping the rest of the population poor and ignorant.
		Kassem was killed in the national television headquarters.
		He had been an Iraqi press attache in Beirut for some of the Kassem era and when I first met him he had a "prison pallor," suggesting he probably had spent some or all of the eight months the Ba'th was in power in jail.
	www.wrmea.com /backissues/0293/9302031.html (4395 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Kassem
		Kassem had come to power the year before, leading a coup against the puppet rulers of Iraq put in place by the British colonialists.
		Such was the hatred for British involvement in Iraq and for its puppet monarch that a 1958 revolution, led by General Abdul Karim Kassem, saw the most reviled...
		In the 75th minute UAE defender Mohammed Kassem was sent off for his second bookable offence, allowing Qatar to assume the upper hand in the closing stages.
	nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/K/Kassem.shtml (1500 words)

	The Nation, 03/16/1963 - Kassem's Legacy by Stewart, Desmond
		Abdul Karim Kassem ruled Iraq from the Ministry of Defense for four and a half years.
		...8, when Kassem thought that the-, attacking airplanes belonged to dissident airmen on their way to exile in Egypt, he 'called on the Communists to rally to him...
		...Kassem himself admitted that the Communist terror in Kirkuk exceeded the still-remembered atrocities of the Mongols...
	www.archive.thenation.com /Summaries/v196i0011_06.htm (2373 words)

	Abdul karim - Iraq's Heads of State (1921-Present) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Aks (Abdul Karim Siraji) is a very fresh Talent in the Music and Remix Industry.
		Abdul Karim Bangura Ph.D., University of Maryland Abdul Karim Bangura holds a BA in International Studies, an MA in International
		Sculpture by Abdul Karim Khalil This work was included in an art show at Hewar Gallery last May protesting the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison.
	amzip.com /amz/abdul-karim.html (370 words)

	Abdul karim - Kassem, Abdul Karim on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Along with mohammad ibrahim, Moulvi Abdul Karim was one of the few Muslims to hold these Moulvi Abdul Karim died in 1943 in Kolkata.
		Abdul Karim Telgi has shown that the 'feel-good' story is not without its warts and for that
		Kassem, Abdul Karimäbdool´ kärem´ kässem´, 1914-63, Iraqi general and politician.
	www.indexingnet.com /?q=abdul-karim (422 words)

	Frozen Sound
		Karim had gained notoriety as an oil painter and was scheduled to be on a popular morning TV program.
		Kassem must have imagined he was becoming adept at consilidating his power as he agreed to go along with Saddam's plan.
		Later, it was revealed that Schaab had in fact propped Kassem up as a leading Ba'ath member and was a CIA operative, in addition to working for the Mossad.
	frozensound.blogspot.com (6132 words)

	Props for Theatre of War set up as Actors rehearse their lines (by Iqbal Jassat) - Media Monitors Network
		Saddam Hussein's annexation of Kuwait in 1990 was preceded thirty years earlier by General Abdul Karim Kassem, the leader of the successful anti-monarchist coup of 1958.
		A Kurd of humble background, Kassem was an intensely popular man, who lived austerely and had no known outside interests except the building of a people's Iraq.
		From 1961 until the overthrow of Kassem in February 1963, the Iraqi Section of Egyptian intelligence facilitated contacts between the CIA and Iraqi exiles in Cairo, including a then junior Ba'ath Party member by the name of Saddam Hussein.
	www.mediamonitors.net /jasarat33.html (801 words)

	Abdul karim - Abdul Karim - English to Indonesian translator. IT,telephony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Abdul Karim Al-Eryani is related to a Yemeni On 3 March 1974, Abdul Karim Al-Eryani was chosen by the President the
		ABDUL KARIM abdulk at jumpy.it Tue Jul 20 02:23:57 PDT 2004 My name is Abdul Karim, a merchant in Dubai, in the UAEI have been diagnosed with lung
		Abdul Karim Kassem emerged as the leader of the Iraqi Revolution and became
	linksseek.com /lksk/abdul-karim.html (436 words)

	Republic Proclaimed - History - Iraq - Middle East: army iraq, baghdad pact, faisal ii, arab union, abdul karim
		On July 14, 1958, in a sudden coup d’etat led by the Iraqi general Abdul Karim Kassem, the country was proclaimed a republic.
		However, Kassem made attempts to gain the confidence of the West by maintaining the flow of oil.
		In March 1959 Iraq withdrew from the Baghdad Pact, which was then renamed the Central Treaty Organization; in June 1959 Iraq withdrew from the sterling bloc (a group of countries whose currencies are tied to the British pound sterling).
	www.countriesquest.com /middle_east/iraq/history/republic_proclaimed.htm (281 words)

	washingtonpost.com: On Killing the King
		When the Iraqi monarchy was overthrown in 1958, Prime Minister Nuri Said, fleeing disguised as a woman, was caught, castrated and hacked to pieces by a crowd.
		When the strongman who took power, Abdul Karim Kassem, was overthrown five years later, he was shot and his body displayed on television.
		When Najibullah, deposed dictator of Afghanistan, was killed by the Taliban in 1996, he too was castrated, shot and hung, still alive, from a lamppost.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A10956-2003Jul31?language=printer (694 words)

	Islamic Voice - Ramadan/Shawwal 1422 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To protect Israel, the CIA armed Iraq’s Kurds and encouraged them to revolt and attack Syria, which was considered a Soviet pawn.
		In response, Colonel Abdul Karim el-Kassem overthrew Iraq’s King Faisal and restored relations with the Soviets.
		Kassem had seized power in a bloody coup and, to the dismay of the US, immediately restored diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and lifted a ban on the Communist Party in Iraq.
	www.islamicvoice.com /december.2001/feature.htm (870 words)

	The crimes of a U.S. ally
		Kassem’s 1958 coup put an end to the British-backed dictatorship.
		But Kassem grew more assertive, buying arms from Washington’s Cold War enemy, the former USSR--and, in an echo of a future conflict, threatening to invade the small oil kingdom of Kuwait, on Iraq’s southeastern border.
		The U.S. aligned itself with Kassem’s opponents, including the Baath Party, then still a small faction in the military distinguished by its fanatical anti-Communism.
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-1/480/480_05_SaddamHussein.shtml (1763 words)

	America slightly responsible for Hussein's Iraqi regime - The Alestle - Editorial
		In the first half of the decade, the tide turned and Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem gained power, turning the monarchy into a republic and putting a new face on the dictatorship of that time.
		Despite Kassem's repressive regime, the United States was rather accepting of Iraq's government.
		After Kassem's death, the CIA provided the new regime with a list of more than 5,000 suspected communists, who were hunted down, jailed, tortured and killed, thus beginning the rule of the bloody Baath party.
	www.thealestle.com /news/2004/03/23/Editorial/America.Slightly.Responsible.For.Husseins.Iraqi.Regime-639080.shtml (981 words)

	Abdul karim - Haryati Abdul Karim
		All lovers of the music of Abdul Karim Khan are indebted to Michael Kinnear, Around 1973, Mr.
		Abdul Karim Germanus is a well known Orientalist of Hungary and is a At present Dr. Abdul Karim Germanus is working as Professor and Head of the
		Kassem, Abdul Karim (äbd?l ' kärem ' kässem '), 1914—63, Iraqi general and politician.
	allbestfree.com /abf/abdul-karim.html (290 words)

	More History
		Iraq was then declared a republic by its new leader, Brigadier Abdul Karim Kassem (known as "il-Za`im").
		In 1963 the leader of the Bath party, Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, overthrew Kassem and established the rule of the National Council for Revolutionary Command with a non-Bathist president, Abdul Salam Muhammad Arif.
		In July 1968 General Abdul Rahman Arif's government was overthrown, and Major General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, a former premier, was appointed head of the Revolutionary Command Council.
	www.iraqandiraqis.com /more_history.htm (3563 words)

	Dar Al Hayat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		History confirms that he was killed while holding his hands up in surrender.
		Abdul Karim Kassem, the first president of the Iraqi republic, was also killed in less than an hour after his surrender in the ministry of defense, and so was Nouri Al Said, the almost permanent Iraqi prime minister.
		Moreover, the location of Abdul Karim Qassem's grave remains to this day unknown.
	english.daralhayat.com /opinion/07-2004/Article-20040710-aa52c026-c0a8-01ed-0004-aa020a550fbb/story.html (1280 words)

	A General History of the Near East, Chapter 17
		Although both Nasser and General Kassem were anti-Western, this didn't mean there was any love between them; the old Egyptian-Mesopotamian rivalry for control of the Middle East prevented Arab unity from becoming a reality.
		On February 8, 1963, Kassem was overthrown and shot by a group of officers, most of them members of the Baath Party.
		His brother, General Abdul Rahman Aref, became the next president, crushed the opposition, and won an indefinite extension of his term in office in 1967.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /neareast/ne17.html (17730 words)

	Abdul Karim Kassem
		Abdul Karim Kassem, the son of a carpenter, was born in Baghdad in 1914.
		The neighbouring Arab states, including Iraq, refused to recognize Israel and invaded the country on the 15th May. During the war Kassem showed outstanding bravery and won several medals.
		Kassem's moderate policies lost him the support of the Ba'ath Party and he was executed after a military coup in February 1963.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /IRQkassem.htm (286 words)

	Index Ka
		The bulk of the army remained loyal, and the uprising was crushed with little difficulty.
		In the spring of 1961 a rebellion broke out among the Kurds, undermining even Kassem's military support, as much of the army became tied down in a seemingly endless and fruitless attempt to put down the rebellion.
		Abdul Salam Arif led dissident army elements in a coup in February 1963, which overthrew the government and killed Kassem himself.
	rulers.org /indexk1.html (15462 words)

	The Agonist: Important Iraqis Left Off Council
		Guardian:Thousands of Iraqis marched through Baghdad yesterday, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the overthrow of the monarchy and calling for the restoration of national independence.
		Many carried pictures of Abdul Karim Kassem, the army general and 1958 coup leader who nationalised Iraq's British-owned oil company and was overthrown five years later in a CIA-backed plot supported by Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party.
		Across town supporters of the constitutional monarchists held a mourning meeting for King Faisal II, grandson of the ruler imposed by Britain in 1920.
	www.agonist.org /archives/005223.html (93 words)

	AllRefer.com - Abdul Karim Kassem (Middle Eastern History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Abdul Karim Kassem[Abdool´ kArEm´ kAssEm´] Pronunciation Key, 1914–63, Iraqi general and politician.
		A graduate (1934) of the Iraqi military academy, he attended the army staff college.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Abdul Karim Kassem
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kassem-A.html (221 words)

	Real Cities.com \| 01/12/2003 \| History: The faded glory of Iraq
		The army officers of the coup, led by Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, established a three-man Sovereignty Council, which issued a constitution.
		Ethnic unrest continued, and, in 1961, the Kurds of the north were in open revolt.
		The Baathists were in power briefly before another army officer, Abdul Salam Arif, seized control.
	www.anysoldier.us /brian/Iraq/Inquirer/HistoryOfIraq (1536 words)

	Regime Change: How the CIA put Saddam's Party in Power
		The overthrow of president Abdul Karim Kassim on February 8, 1963 was not, of course, the first intervention in the region by the agency, but it was the bloodiest--far bloodier than the coup it orchestrated in 1953 to restore the shah of Iran to power.
		The new ruler of the country was an army general named Abdul Karim Kassem, who had murdered his predecessors as well as a number of foreigners who happened to be in Baghdad at the time of his coup.
		In this instance the handkerchief was duly dispatched to Kassem, but whether or not it ever reached him, it certainly did not kill him.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/51/217.html (4444 words)

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		KASSEM CHANGED THE SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT AND IN 1961 SENTIMENTALLY AND IMPRUDENTLY SET AREF FREE.
		KASSEM BEGAN TO GROW SUSPICIOUS OF IRAQ'S COMMUNISTS ; AFTER A SERIES OF RED-INSPIRED STRIKES, KASSEM JAILED HUNDREDS OF REDS AND CONDEMNED TO DEATH 28 COMMUNIST LEADERS.
		KASSEM WAS ALIVE, BUT ONLY FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
	www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at /~andi/somlib/data/time60/files/articles/T087.html (877 words)

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