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Free Officers Movement (Iraq)
The Free Officers were a secret network of Iraqi army officers, modelled on the Egyptian movement, led by Abd al-Karim Qasim and Abdul Salam Arif. On 14 July 1958 their troops seized Baghdad, killed King Faisal II and his family and proclaimed a republic. The revolution ended the Hashemite monarchy and Iraq's membership of the Baghdad Pact.
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