Abdul Karim Qasim person
also: Qasem, Qasim
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British documents have John Foster Dulles on record from a year earlier speculating that the Mossadegh example might be the way to handle the Iraq situation. Six months later, there was an attempted assassination of the Iraqi leader, Abdul …
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a participant in the coup that was against Abdul Karim Qasim. This is how you get the connection of Saddam Hussein to the CIA. Some also go much further. They actually say that Saddam Hussein was on the payroll of the CIA.…
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Other evidence suggests that the CIA had taken measures to incapacitate and eliminate Qasem in 1960 and that it was involved in the coup that overthrew him in 1963. James Critchfield has been cited as making the initial recruitments in 1963…
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basically stated the degree to which Saddam Hussein part of the rocket, using the analogy of different stages of a rocket launch, was built into the Qasim government, right? The 1958 change is the Qasim government. And the interesting thing…
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for an audience that was being activated. And at least they could hear that argument of, as in, we don't want to be like England or France. And you see that manipulated in Suez Canal crisis. But anyway, the short version is, I think, that j…
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Which they actually were in funny other words. But so it's like the goal was how to stop pan-Arabism from going all the way from from Egypt all the way across to, you know, right up into Iraq and on the border of Iran. Right. Which it did h…
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Like the Qasim part of the Syrian strategy and breaking the flow of pan-Arabism was good just temporarily for like two years. But then later, with Nasser no longer a threat, they could just put in somebody who would serve, you know, the int…