There is a lot of info that can be found on the Internet giving accounts from the British, Israeli’s and Americans.

It was one of the last Imperialist wars when France and Britain colluded with Israel to try to prevent Egypt from asserting control over the Suez Canal.

The RAF were at that time training the Egyptians amongst others in air gunnery skills at a base in Iraq. RAF personnel were instructed to depart pronto, fearing a backlash from their host country.

The link below gives info on what was happening in Iraq just before the Suez Crisis.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=29443&highlight=malta+iraq