"Unlike other so-called Iraqi leaders he was not pretentious: he did not live in the Prime Minister's usual residence but in his modest house in the Al Batawein district. He did not amass wealth. He put his salary in his pocket so he could distribute it to the poor. When he was executed he only had a dinar and a quarter on him."
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Jabbar Maan al-Khafaji, as quoted in Karen Dabrowska & Geoff Hann (2008) Bradt Iraq Then and Now: A Guide to the Country and Its People.
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Abd al-Karim Qasim
Abd al-Karim Qasim (21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963) was the Prime Minister of Iraq from 1958 to 1963.
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