In 1963, the Kennedy administration backed a coup against the government of Iraq headed by General Abdel Karim Kassem, who five years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy. The C.I.A. helped the new Baath Party government in ridding the country of suspected leftists and communists. In a Baathist bloodbath, the government used lists of suspected communists and other leftists provided by the C.I.A., to systematically murder untold numbers of Iraq's educated elite—killings in which Saddam Hussein, later Iraq's dictator, is said to have participated. The victims included hundreds of doctors, teachers, technicians, lawyers and other professionals as well as military and political figures
في العام 1963 ، دعمتْ إدارةُ كنَدي انقلاباً ضد حكومة العراق التي كان يرأسُها اللواء عبد الكريم قاسم ، الذي كان أطاحَ ، قبل خمس سنوات ،
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