Among Arab leaders, Iraq's late Nuri asSaid probably led all the rest in the bitterness of his public excoriations of Israel. But fate appears to have played a last weird trick on the murdered Iraqi strongman. Out of Jerusalem last week came a strange story: Nuri Pasha's only survivor may be a 16-year-old Jewish boy now living in an Israeli border kibbutz.
The boy's mother, Nadia Maslia, told Israeli newsmen that she met Nuri's only son, Sabah, in the early '30s when her family of wealthy Jewish bankers in Baghdad often did business with...
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