Iraq is in dire need for another Qassem!

It was a mere coincidence that General Abdul Kareem Qassem of Iraq toppled the pro-British government and freed thousands of political prisoners on July 14, 1958, or on the same day of the French Revolution of 1789. Qassem dissolved the feudal land ownership, dismantled Baghdad pact, closed the two British air force bases, freed political activities and above all nationalised the oil industry. That is why the British and the Americans conspired to undermine his regime which led to his assassination.

The CIA-connected Nasser of Egypt, worked hard in association with the British and American intelligence elements to give arms to Saddam and his Baathist friends who later shot him three times but didn’t succeed in killing him in July 1959. But their biggest success came on February 8, 1963 when the Baathists took over Iraq, killing Qassem and close to 10000 ‘communists’. According to some sources, the CIA installed transmitters in Amman Jordan and in Kuwait sending names and addresses of anti-American elements to be liquidated. It was similar to the toppling of Dr Mossadeq Government in Tehran some ten years earlier and the return of the oil cartels.


Qassem was a real nationalist who united Iraqis of all walks of life, helped the poor, strengthened the armed forces and wanted to establish a multi party democracy. To the Americans, giving Iraqis political freedom was the biggest threat to the backward and autocratic Saudi Royal Family and to the tyrannical Shah regime. The hatred for America in Iraq for toppling Qassem and for supporting Saddam atrocities is ingrained in the Iraqi psyche manifested in the daily attacks on the Americans, their agents and on their mercenaries. Today, 14.07.09 Iraq is in bad need for another Qassem.
Adnan Darwash, Iraq Occupation Times