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Iraq appears to have staengthened his grip on the country following the mass execution of high-ranking officiaIs and members of the ruling Baath Socialist Party. Twentytwo prominent Iraqis, including some of the country's most powerful men, were executed on S August by a firing squad for plotting against the Baath party regime which Saddam Hussein inherited from 'the ageing President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr on 16 July. The twenty-two, including five members of the governing Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), were condemned by an "emergency court" in Baghdad. Among those executed were such leading figures in the Party and the Government as the First Deputy Minister, Adnan Hussein, Education Minister Mohammed Mahjoub, the former Industriss Minister, Mohammed Ayesh, a prominert member of the ruling Biath Party, Ghanam Abdul Jalil, and the Secretary-Gzneral of thz Revolutionary Command Council, Muhyi Abdul Hussein Mashhadi. The condemned also included Khalid Adib Othrnan,,Minister of State for the administration of the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Another 23 defendants were awarded prison terms from one to 15 years. Among those given prison terms for complicity in the plo

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Author

R. S. Thapar

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

1979

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences