It is claimed that long before the current crisis, Saddam Hussein was afraid to leave his country for fear of overthrow. The problem may be in the land as much as in the man. The al-Sabbah ruling family of Kuwait owes its long reign and its borders in good measure to the British, who established a protectorate there in and left only in A colonial history might not seem in itself to raise doubts about legitimacy, but in this regard the Middle East may be different.
In that sense, successors to the Ottoman sultans have not yet been permanently installed, even though between and installing them was what the Allies believed themselves to be doing. In what legitimated the new countries and their leaders in Western eyes was international law, but the Arabs--upon whom these countries and these leaders were imposed--had at the time little reason to regard international law as their law.
Do they yet? Let us suppose for the sake of argument that the current American intervention brings about an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the installation of a regime more to our liking in Baghdad. Only then will the Arabs--all the Arabs, not just the royal families--believe that international law secures their safety as well as ours. Only then will they find a middle course between the brutality of future Saddam Husseins and the futility of future George Bushes.
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They worried about his repeated denunciations of British control over Kuwait—which Ghazi claimed was a province of Iraq—and his attacks on the Kuwaiti ruling family. But the rhetoric thrilled young Iraqis. Six years after becoming king, Ghazi crashed his sports car into a utility pole in Baghdad after an evening of drinking. His two British physicians summoned an Iraqi colleague to the scene of the mortally wounded king.
Harry C. Even so, violent street demonstrations erupted in Baghdad the next day. In Mosul, a mob killed the British consul. For years, many Iraqis insisted that Ghazi was killed by the British and their allies.
He was succeeded by his son Faisal II. The conspiracy theories also stirred foment in the Iraqi Army, though the British largely missed the warning signs. By the s, Arab leaders were also angered by the growing numbers of European Jews migrating to Palestine, a British mandate until When the British suppressed a revolt by Palestinian Arabs in , Iraqi Army officers invited the defeated leader, the Mufti of Jerusalem, to live in Baghdad.
Iraq attempted to ally itself with Germany and in threatened to fire on British planes at an airfield near Baghdad. British Royal Air Force troops stationed on the outskirts of Baghdad held the Iraqi Army at bay while British reinforcements from India landed in Basra and marched north.
In Baghdad, some British nationals and their Iraqi sympathizers sought refuge in the British Embassy. The last person admitted into the compound was Freya Stark. Previously disdained by many compatriots, she was now hailed as a savior. Her good relations with the guards may have saved the embassy from mobs.
By early June, British forces had taken control of Baghdad. The four Iraqi colonels behind his coup were captured and hanged. In retaliation, outraged Iraqi mobs stormed the Jewish quarter, presumed to be pro-British, and killed men, women and children, injuring hundreds more. Anti-British passions were further inflamed by the outbreak, in , of war in Palestine, where Iraqi troops fought on the Arab side against the Israelis, whose ultimate victory, most Iraqis believed, could not have been achieved without British and American assistance.
A jubilant Saddam Hussein, 31, rode through Baghdad atop a tank. His kinsman, Gen.
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