Second, it encouraged the ideas of the , which had been growing steadily since the 14 July coup | the abolition of monarchy, republicanism, and paving the way for Ba'athist rule but also because of its domestic reforms |
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The Iraqi cabinet began to shift towards the radical-left as several communist sympathizers gained posts in the cabinet | In July 2004, Qasim's body was discovered by a news team associated with Radio Dijlah Tigris in Baghdad |
This caused a divide in the Iraqi government between the Iraqi Nationalist Qasim, who wanted Iraq's identity to be secular and civic nationalist, revolving around Mesopotamian identity and the Arab Nationalists who sought after an Arab identity for Iraq and closer ties to the rest of the Arab world.
4A cabinet was created, composed of a broad spectrum of Iraqi political movements: this included two National Democratic Party representatives, one member of al-Istiqlal, one representative and one | He also moved to counter Arif's power base by removing him from his position as deputy commander of the armed forces |
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Qasim's change of policy aggravated his relationship with Arif who, despite being the subordinate of Qasim, had gained great prestige as the perpetrator of the coup itself | During the ambush it was claimed that Saddam began shooting prematurely, which disrupted the whole operation |
Kuwait, however, had signed a recent defence treaty with the British, who came to her assistance with troops to stave off any attack on 1 July | Qasim's position was fatally weakened by 1962 |
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Despite evidence that the CIA had been closely tracking the Ba'ath Party's coup planning since "at least 1961", the CIA official working with on a separate plan to instigate a military coup against Qasim, and who later became the head of the CIA's operations in Iraq and Syria, has "denied any involvement in the Ba'ath Party's actions", stating instead that the CIA's efforts against Qasim were still in the planning stages at the time |
Disagreements between Qasim, the ICP, and the Kurds thus created a power vacuum that was exploited by a "tiny" group of Iraqi Ba'athists in 1963.
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