| from the original on 2 September 2006 | Then, in response to the IPC's rejection of this proposal, Qasim issued Public Law 80, which would have taken away 99 |
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| Qasim also oversaw the building of 35,000 residential units to house the poor and | Arif's criticism of Qasim became gradually more pronounced |
Iraq was isolated from the Arab world for its part in the Kuwait incident, whilst Iraq had antagonised its powerful neighbour, Iran.
16| [ ] However, he further undermined his rapidly deteriorating position with a series of foreign policy blunders | Karsh, Efraim, The Iran-Iraq War: 1980—1988, London: Osprey, 2002, p |
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| Furthermore, notwithstanding his outwardly friendly posture towards the Kurds, Qasim was unable to grant Kurdistan autonomous status within Iraq, leading to the 1961 outbreak of the and secret contacts between the KDP and Qasim's Ba'athist opponents in 1962 and 1963 | He began to foster relations with the Iraqi Communist Party, which attempted to mobilize support in favor of his policies |
[ ] 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.