| He actively opposed foreign troop presence in Iraq and spoke out against it | [ ] Although the threat of Arif had been negated, another soon arose in the form of , the exiled former prime minister who had fled Iraq in 1941 |
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| The communists attempted to replicate their success at Mosul in | Despite one of the major goals of the revolution was to join the movement and practice qawmiyah policies, Qasim soon modified his views, once in power |
Farouk—Sluglett, Marion; Sluglett, Peter 2001.
27| [ ] However, he further undermined his rapidly deteriorating position with a series of foreign policy blunders | Qasim's position was fatally weakened by 1962 |
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| These were subsequently replaced by an Arab force assembled by the in September, where they remained until 1962 | A coup was planned for 9 December, but Qasim was prepared, and instead had the conspirators arrested on the same date |
However, his time in Germany was brief, as he attempted to return to Baghdad on 4 November amid rumors of an attempted coup against Qasim.
14| To strengthen his own position within the government, Qasim created an alliance with the ICP , which was opposed to any notion of pan-Arabism | He was brought to trial for treason and condemned to death in January 1959 |
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| Despite evidence that the CIA had been closely tracking the Ba'ath Party's coup planning since "at least 1961", the CIA official working with on a separate plan to instigate a military coup against Qasim, and who later became the head of the CIA's operations in Iraq and Syria, has "denied any involvement in the Ba'ath Party's actions", stating instead that the CIA's efforts against Qasim were still in the planning stages at the time | Having dissolved the Hashemite with the , Qasim refused to allow Iraq to enter the federation, although his government recognized the republic and considered joining it later |
Abdullah, A Short History of Iraq: 636 to the present, , Harlow, UK, 2003• was a leading member of the operation.
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