Nationalist Officers' Organization

Members of this organization
Leaders of the 1958 July revolution, including Khaled al-Naqshabendi (front row, left), Abd as-Salam Arif (back row, second from left), Abd al-Karim Qasim (back row, third from left) and Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i (back row, fifth from left). Also included is Michel Aflaq (front row, first from right).

The Nationalist Officers' Organization[1][2][3] (Arabic: تنظيم الضباط الوطنيين) was a Qasimist organization made up of Iraqi officers which is similar to the Free Officers' Organization in Egypt. The members of this organization arose in the 1958 July revolution, when it led this movement in the toppling of the monarchy and the establishment of a republic.

References

  1. ^ "The Zero-Sum Fiasco". 3 February 2022.
  2. ^ Kinzer, Stephen (October 2013). The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War. ISBN 9781429953528.
  3. ^ Lust, Ellen (25 April 2016). The Middle East. ISBN 9781506329291.

Sources

  • Batatu, Hanna (1978). The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: a Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba'thists, and Free Officers. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-05241-7