1950–1951 Baghdad bombings

Common card · No. 304325

Jewish targets were bombed in Baghdad, Iraq, between April 1950 and June 1951. Two activists in the Iraqi Zionist underground were found guilty by an Iraqi court for a number of the bombings, and were sentenced to death. Another was sentenced to life imprisonment and seventeen more were given long prison sentences. The allegations against Israeli agents had "wide consensus" amongst Iraqi Jews in Israel. Many of the Iraqi Jews in Israel who lived in poor conditions blamed their ills and misfortunes on the Israeli Zionist emissaries or Iraqi Zionist underground movement. The theory that "certain Jews" carried out the attacks "in order to focus the attention of the Israel Government on the plight of the Jews" was viewed as "more plausible than most" by the British Foreign Office. Telegrams between the Mossad LeAliyah Bet agents in Baghdad and their superiors in Tel Aviv give the impression that neither group knew who was responsible for the attack. Israeli involvement has been consistently...

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