Bakr Sidqi
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Bakr Sidqi al-Askari was an Iraqi general of Kurdish origin, who served as the Chief of the Iraq General Staff of the nation's military. He was assassinated on 11 August 1937, in Mosul.
General Bakr Sadqi in uniform
The Lethbridge Herald, 18 August 1933, reporting on the Simele massacre.
Yasin al-Hashimi
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Yasin al-Hashimi was an Iraqi military officer and politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Iraq. Like many of Iraq's early leaders, al-Hashimi served as a military officer during the Ottoman
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…the General Staff of the Royal Iraqi Army—staged what was probably the first modern military coup d'état in the Arab world against the government of Yasin al-Hashimi. Eleven Iraqi military planes dropped leaflets over Baghdad on 29 October 1936, requesting the King to take action and dismiss Yasin al-Hashimi's…
Yasin al-Hashimi as Minister of Finance, 1927
Al-Hashimi in military uniform
The tomb of al-Hashimi outside of the Mausoleum of Saladin in Damascus, Syria. The tombstone contains a verse from the Qur'an that reads "Think not of those who are slain in Allah’s way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord"