Penal System in Iraq - People Executed by Iraq, Prisoners and Detainees of Iraq, Recipients of Iraqi Presidential Pardons, Abd Al-Karim Qasim (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People Executed by Iraq, Prisoners and Detainees of Iraq, Recipients of Iraqi Presidential Pardons, Abd Al-Karim Qasim, Faisal Ii of Iraq, Yusuf Salman Yusuf, 'abd Al-Ilah, Farzad Bazoft, Tawfiq Al-Suwaidi, Sabawi Ibrahim Al-Tikriti, Ayesh Ali Hussein Al-Harbi. Excerpt: Abd al-Karim Qasim (Arabic: ) (1914 February 9, 1963), was a nationalist Iraqi Army officer who seized power in a 1958 coup d'tat, wherein the Iraqi monarchy was eliminated. He ruled the country as Prime Minister of Iraq until his downfall and death in 1963. His name can be transliterated from the Arabic in a number of ways, e.g. Abdel Karim Kassem, Abdul Karim Kassem, Abdulkarim Kasem, Abdel-Karim Qaasim, Abdul Karim Qasem, Qassem. During his rule, he was popularly known as al-zam () or, "The Leader". Abd al-Karim Qasim's father was a Sunni Muslim of Arab descent who died shortly after his son's birth during World War I as a soldier for the Ottoman Empire. Qasim's mother was a Shiite and the daughter of a Feyli Kurd farmer from Baghdad. When Qasim was six years of age his family moved to Suwayra, a small town near the Tigris, then to Baghdad in 1926. Qasim was an excellent student; he entered secondary school on a government scholarship. After graduation in 1931, he taught at Shamiyya Elementary School from Oct 22 of that year until Sept 3 1932, when he was accepted into Military College. In 1934, he graduated as a second lieutenant. Qasim then attended al-Arkan (Iraqi Staff) College and graduated with honor (grade A) in December 1941. In 1951, he completed a senior officers course in Britain. Militarily, he participated in the suppression of the tribal disturbances in the Middle Euphrates region in 1935, during the Anglo-Iraqi War in May 1941 and in the Kurdistan War in 1... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=229432