IRAQ PLOT CRUSHED
Many Arrests Reported
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CAIRO, August 20.
The Government-controlled Cairo Radio early today reported that Iraqi authorities have crushed a new anti-Kassem Communist conspiracy in Bagdad. The broadcast, which gave no source for its information, said 15 officers and many civilians were arrested in raids.
When questioned later by telephone, a station official said the reports came from “informed Iraqi sources.”
The report said the Communists planned an uprising in the 3rd Regiment stationed in northern Iraq to coincide with the mutiny in Bagdad. The Iraqi People’s Court in Bagdad has sentenced to death five Army officers and one civilian charged with complicity in the abortive Mosul revolt in March. Three officers were sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour and 12 defendants, including one civilian, a journalist, were acquitted. The five officers including Captan Nafi Dawood, who declared in Court that he had lost his sight from torture, were sentenced to face firing squads. The civilian. Fadhel Hammad Shakra. described as an announcer from the rebel radio, will be hanged.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28979, 21 August 1959, Page 13
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