Al-Qaidah (newspaper)
Al-Qaidah was banned by the government. People caught with an issue of the newspaper could be put in prison. By 1947, bout 3000 copies of each issue of al-Qaidah were being printed. It was one of the most widely read newspapers in the country at the time. It was primarily read in Baghdad, the Shiite south and the Kurdish north. During 1954–55, seventeen issues of al-Qaidah were published. Its issues had an average circulation of around 5,400.