Wahbi was a close friend of Saib Shawkat, the prominent, rabidly antise-
mitic, pro-Nazi physician who had studied and trained in Germany, and
who was arguably the leading Iraqi Nazi after the demise of Rashid Ali and
the ex-Mufti. About the Shawkat family, see Chap. 6.
Tribal and Political Weekly Intelligence Summary No. 74, CICI Iraq, 13
July 1942, AIR 29/2506, TNA; Tribal and Political Weekly Intelligence
Summary No. 75, CICI Iraq, 20 July 1942, AIR 29/2506, TNA; Security
Intelligence Summary No. 39, CICI Iraq, 20 September 1942, AIR
29/2506, TNA.
Security Intelligence Summary No. 39, CICI Iraq, 20 September 1942,
AIR 29/2506, TNA.
As described by a subaltern in the Bombay Grenadiers who disembarked
there on 15 December 1942; see Private papers of Lieutenant D. Haddon,
15964, Documents Collection, Imperial War Museum [IWM].
Security Intelligence Summary No. 50, Defence Security Office, CICI
Iraq, 23 January 1943, AIR 29/2512, TNA.
Cornwallis to Eden, 13 January 1944, reprinted in PDAW, 582–3.
Stonehewer-Bird to Bevin, 4 March 1946, FO 371/52423, TNA.
