Nuri as-Said
Britishnoun
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Bedeviled by rising prices, by an economic boycott on the part of Egypt and a growing surplus of Sudanese cotton, faced with dissidents in his own Cabinet, Khalil could see governmental control slipping to his pro-Nasser rival, Ismail el Azhari, who recently predicted for Khalil "the fate of Nuri as-Said," the murdered Premier of Iraq.
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In the 1958 revolution, they dismembered Premier Nuri as-Said's corpse.
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"Oh, dear Iraq," cried Radio Damascus, "demolish your prison walls, free yourself of your chains and the villainy of Nuri as-Said."
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In 1958, Iraqis gunned down King Feisal II and dismembered Premier Nuri as-Said's corpse.
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