An interesting point about the CIA role in this coup was that, as in
Indonesia in 1965, the Agency was instrumental in supplying the names
of the Communists to be eliminated. This has been confirmed by
different sources. For example, Qasim's foreign minister later told
two analysts that 'the
* Deceit and duplicity: Some reflections on Western intervention in Iraq
The attempt by the US and Britain to project their occupation of Iraq
as an act of 'liberation' is consistent with the pattern of deceit
and duplicity that has characterised Western intervention in that
country. And if
