CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - IRAQ

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06810147
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-01337
• Publication Date: January 16, 1963

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4. Iraq: Popular hostility toward Qa.sim regime
increases. (Page 6)
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Iraq: Popular hostility toward the Qasim regime
appears to be increasing, but Qasim's confidence in
his own position remains unshaken.
Country-wide student strikes are continuing. They
began on 20 December with clashes between Communist
and Arab nationalist student demonstrators, and have
been used by the regime as an excuse to move against
anti-Qasim teachers and student leaders.
Troops have taken over Baghdad University. Over
a thousand students reportedly have been imprisoned
and many seriously injured. Communist students, how-
ever, are not participating in the strike and are being
protected by the government.
Qasim's willingness to antagonize popular opinion
by taking such harsh measures against students ap-
parently stems from supreme confidence in his invul-
I nerability.
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