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Membership of the Revolutionary Command Council was taken from this source:
- Ghareeb & Dougherty 2004 , pp. 385–386
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- Ghareeb, Edmund; Dougherty, Beth (2004). Historical dictionary of Iraq . Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-4330-1.