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	FAISAL II OF IRAQ FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Faisal II (May_2, 1935 - July_14, 1958) was the last king of Iraq from April_4, 1939 to 1958.
		He was the son of the second king of Iraq, Ghazi, who was killed in an automobile accident when Faisal was three.
		Faisal, as the senior member of the Hashemite family, became head of state.
	www.dontpayyourtaxes.com /Faisal_II_of_Iraq (247 words)

	skill-link: Interest Zone
		The cousin of Iraq's last king, Sharif Ali bin Al-Hussein, a wealthy London banker and apparent heir to the throne claims he is certain the majority of Iraqis want a return to the monarchy.
		Sharif Ali bin Al-Hussein is cousin to the late King Faisal II, his father is Sharif Al-Hussein bin Ali (whose father was Prince of Mecca until 1908 and uncle to King Faisal I), and his mother is Princess Badia, daughter of King Ali bin Hussein I and aunt of the late King Faisal II.
		Faisal II Interested to further understand the family tree of the Sherif Hussein who includes among his descendents the current King of Jordan and Sharif Ali who claims the throne of Iraq?
	www.skill-link.com /Docs/IZ/iraqking147.htm (315 words)

	Bambooweb: Saddam Hussein
		Saddam Hussein was born in the village of Al-Awja, in the Tikrit district of Iraq, to a family of sheep-herders.
		Iraq signed an aid pact with the Soviet Union in 1972, and arms were sent along with several thousand advisers.
		Iraq's ethnic and religious divisions, together with the brutality of the conflict that this had engendered, laid the groundwork for postwar rebellions.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/s/a/Saddam_Hussein.html (6498 words)

	Faisal II of Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faisal II (May 2, 1935 - July 14, 1958) was the last king of Iraq from April 4, 1939 to 1958.
		Just two weeks later, on February 14, it was signed into existence as the Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan.
		A military officer, Abdul Karim Qassim, used the resulting troop movements as the opportunity to stage a coup, capturing Baghdad and proclaiming a republic on July 14.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Faisal_II_of_Iraq (288 words)

	Iraq Timeline
		A military coup overthrows the monarchy, kills King Faisal II, and declares Iraq a republic.
		Iraq drains water from southern marshlands inhabited Muslim Shiites, in retaliation for the Shiites' long-standing opposition to Saddam Hussein's government (April).
		Iraq suspends all cooperation with the UN inspectors (Jan. 13).
	www.infoplease.com /spot/iraqtimeline1.html (926 words)

	Articles - Saddam Hussein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Saddam Hussein was born in the village of Al-Ouja, 8 kilometers from the city of Tikrit district of Iraq, to a family of sheep-herders.
		Iraq invaded Iran by attacking Mehrabad Airport of Tehran and entering the oil-riched Iranian land of Khuzestan on September 22, 1980.
		Iraq quickly found itself bogged down in one of the longest and most destructive wars of attrition of the twentieth century.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Saddam_Hussein (7570 words)

	Iraq
		In January 1943, pro-British Iraq declared war on the World War II Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) under the terms of a treaty with Britain.
		In 1958 King Faisal II of Iraq was executed in a coup by army officers.
		Iraq's foreign policy, however, moved from a pro-West stance to one of friendly relations with the communist powers.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/overview.htm (966 words)

	Republic of Iraq
		Iraq is an Arab republic in southwestern Asia which is slightly larger than California.
		Iraq is bankrupt, its economy and infrastructure shattered by years of economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations following the invasion of Kuwait.
		Here you see Saddam, usually smiling benevolently, in a variety of guises and poses - in military uniform, say, or in traditional ethnic dress, or tweed cap and sports jacket; he might be surrounded by his family or be seen jiggling a young child on his knee - the would-be father-figure of the Iraqi nation.
	www.davidstuff.com /geo/iraq.htm (2185 words)

	Rashid Ali al-Kaylani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born to a prominent Baghdad family, he was related to Iraq's first prime minister, Abd ar-Rahman al-Haydari al-Gillani, though the two parts of the family were estranged.
		When Gillani was again appointed prime minister in 1940, Iraq had just experienced the premature death of King Ghazi and a weakened regency for the new four-year-old King Faisal II of Iraq under his uncle, Emir Abdul-Illah.
		Iraq had been a major supplier of petroleum to the Allied war effort and an important landbridge between British forces in Egypt and India.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Rashid-Ali-al-Kaylani.htm (714 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Faisal II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Faisal II MSN Home
		Faisal II (1935-1958), king of Iraq (1939-1958), grandson of Faisal I, born in Baghdad, and educated at Harrow School, England.
		Hashemite, also Hashimite, the name of two Arabian dynasties, both of which claim descent from Hashim of the tribe of Koreish, traditionally the...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Faisal_II.html (92 words)

	Iraq to Send Delegation to U.N.
		The occasion was the 45th anniversary of a bloody coup in 1958 when nationalists killed King Faisal II, Iraq's last monarch, provoking years of political unrest.
		In west Baghdad, one American soldier was killed and six wounded in the attack by insurgents who fired several rocket-propelled grenades at the military convoy early Monday, said Spc.
		On the same day as the inauguration, U.S. forces launched their latest sweep in cities and towns of central Iraq, hunting for Saddam loyalists amid expectations of anti-U.S. attacks to mark a number of Baathist holidays this week.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /news/2003/gjuly/14_iraq.html (1047 words)

	Asia Times
		After the 1958 coup that toppled King Faisal II of Iraq, Turkey reversed its decision and restored a budget line for Iraq's fees.
		Although Ankara may have an economic interest in demanding a stake in Kirkuk and Mosul, which are among Iraq's largest oil-producing areas, regional experts believe that the prospects of industrial fallout are not the main Turkish concern.
		If, in the course of any war, the Kurds of northern Iraq would claim independence, or would be allowed de facto or de jure independence on the part of the Americans, then this is certainly a second option.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EB06Ak01.html (1704 words)

	GN Online: Iraq opposition says Saddam could exploit UK plans
		Iraq's opposition umbrella group said yesterday it welcomed British proposals to end embargoes on all civilian imports to Baghdad but warned they could benefit President Saddam Hussein more than his people.
		Iraq resumed exports of oil, at first in very limited quantities, in 1996 under a United Nations oil-for-food scheme which gave it access to around two-thirds of the oil proceeds to buy humanitarian supplies.
		Britain's proposals would keep financial controls on Iraq's oil revenues in a UN fund out of which suppliers for goods going to Baghdad are paid.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=17689 (470 words)

	MER - Jordan's once 'Crown Prince Hassan' is Looking for another throne in Baghdad
		That Union, between Jordan's King Hussein and his cousin and close friend King Faisal II of Iraq, was supposed to form a federation, with Faisal at its helm and Hussein as his deputy.
		In July 1958, Faisal was gruesomely murdered in the revolution that threw out the monarchy and brought in the Iraqi republic.
		The conference, held at the Kensington Town Hall, was attended by the mostly graying, mostly mustachioed rebels of the Iraqi National Congress, the main opposition umbrella group in exile, along with several dozen former Iraqi army officers, all determined to have a hand in Saddam Hussein's demise.
	www.middleeast.org /launch/redirect.cgi?num=54&a=9 (888 words)

	Faisal II on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Son Of Saddam: As Iraq's top Olympic official, Uday Hussein is accused of the torture and murder of athletes who fail to win.(Olympic Sports)
		The destroyed and looted Royal Palace of King Faisal II after the 1958 revolt by the Iraqi army.
		Street scene near the destroyed Royal Palace of King Faisal II after the 1958 revolt by the Iraqi army.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/f/faisal2.asp (607 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 14 \| 1958: Coup in Iraq sparks jitters in Middle East
		A group of Iraqi army officers have staged a coup in Iraq and overthrown the monarchy.
		There are fears the Iraq coup will have a domino effect and that the pro-Western oil regimes of Kuwait, Bahrain and the Trucial States may fall to Arab nationalists.
		Iraq's coup leader and prime minister, Abdul Karim el Qasim, was ousted and killed in 1963 in a coup led by the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/14/newsid_3736000/3736391.stm (700 words)

	The Art Newspaper -- News
		According to the auction house, the seventh-century letter was owned by the widow of King Faisal II of Iraq, who had been overthrown 15 years earlier.
		This letter was “in the possession of the widow of King Faisal II of Iraq”.
		The fact that the father of the Iraqi King Faisal II was born in Mecca suggests a theoretical link.
	www.theartnewspaper.com /news/article.asp?idart=11581 (1162 words)

	The Command Post - Iraq - Iraq To Send Delegation to U.N.
		The occasion was Revolution Day, the 45th anniversary of a bloody coup in 1958 when nationalists killed King Faisal II, Iraq's last monarch, provoking years of political unrest.
		I believe that is one of the steps to Iraq being accepted as a government by the world.
		Iraq is a LONG ways away from being a member of the un.
	www.command-post.org /archives/007994.html (750 words)

	Faisal II of Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For most of his reign his uncle Abdul Illah ruled as regent (until Faisal came of age in 1953).
		After neighboring Syria joined with Nasser's Egypt in the United Arab Republic, the two kingdoms came together in February 1958.
		Faisal, as the senior member of the Hashemite family, became the head of the newly created Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/faisal_ii_of_iraq (255 words)

	Regime Change, Literally: Jordan's King May Rule Post-War Iraq
		After the death of King Hussein in 1999, they suggested giving Iraq to Hussein's brother, Crown Prince Hassan, who had been deprived of the throne in Amman on Hussein's deathbed in favor of his son Abdullah.
		Since King Faisal II of Iraq, who was deposed in 1958, was a Hashemite and the second cousin of King Abdullah, this move was seen as having some vague potential legitimacy with the Arab leadership.
		Far from presenting Iraq's destruction as a mere ploy in a strategy to weaken Syria, the White House team members now present Saddam Hussein as the chief evil in the region.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles2/Beeman_RegimeChange.htm (820 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Faisal II
		Faisal II (1935-1958), king of Iraq (1939-1958), grandson of Faisal I, born in Baghdād, and educated at Harrow School, England.
		The first parliamentary elections based on direct suffrage took place on January 17, 1953.
		Kassem, Abdul Karim (1914-1963), premier of Iraq and leader of the military coup that in 1958 overthrew the monarchy of King Faisal II.
	encarta.msn.com /Faisal_II.html (169 words)

	RichardBellikoff.com
		The Baghdad designs Wright produced in that year do not look out of place in a Middle-Eastern setting, with the curves, domes, spires, and use of the ancient ziggurat idea as a parking solution.
		Young King Faisal II of Iraq was murdered along with his family in a military revolution led by Brig.
		The debate is supposed to cover domestic issues, but sooner or later, the subject of Iraq is bound to come up.
	radio.weblogs.com /0134340/2004/10/13.html (293 words)

	Iraq: One Year Later- by Justin Raimondo
		But if the President thinks he can look those parents in the eye and point to Iraq's new Constitution as evidence that their sons and daughters died for a noble cause, he and his strategists are bound to be sorely disappointed.
		Faisal I, the puppet monarch of "Greater Syria" deposed by the French and invited by the British to serve the same function in Iraq, or
		Faisal II, his ineffectual grandson, who was overthrown in a coup by soldiers opposed to intervening against rebels in "Transjordan" and Lebanon.
	www.antiwar.com /justin?articleid=2134 (2071 words)

	Saddam's Story; Who is Iraq's leader, and how did he come to
		In the mid-'50s, he was sentenced to prison, where he spent six months for trying to overthrow King Faisal II of Iraq.
		On July 16, 1979, Saddam forced Bakr to resign and appointed himself president of Iraq and commander-in-chief of the military.
		On Aug. 2, 1990, Iraq annexed Kuwait, claiming the country was its 19th province.
	www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2003/030408-saddam01.htm (757 words)

	Iraq War News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The U.S. combat death toll in Iraq hit a disheartening milestone Thursday as the Pentagon acknowledged its casualties from hostile fire reached 147, the same number of troops who died at enemy hands in the first Gulf War.
		Iraq Governing Council to Address U.N. Three members of Iraq's new governing body will address the U.N. Security Council next week as individual experts and not as representatives of an official government, the Security Council decided Thursday.
		Soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq are more than disappointed at delays in their return to the U.S. Their letters home show frustration and despair, reports CBS' Mark Strassmann.
	www.brandonblog.homestead.com /files/2003_07_18_archive.html (2538 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		Asked by the Iraq government's development board to design an opera house for the capital, he ended up producing an ambitious, multibuilding scheme for the city--none of which was ever built.
		Wright was originally asked to build the opera house on a small plot in the center of Baghdad, but as he flew in over the capital, he spotted an undeveloped island in the Tigris, on the city's southwest fringe.
		When he met King Faisal II, Iraq's ruler at the time, Wright asked to build on the island, known locally as "Pig Island." Faisal replied, "The island, Mr.
	opinionjournal.com /la/?id=110003910 (965 words)

	GN Online: Iraqi opposition says sending in agents this month
		Sharif Ali, a constitutional monarchist and first cousin to the late King Faisal II of Iraq, is in Washington with the rest of the six-man INC leadership for negotiations with the State Department on details of a $29 million U.S. aid package.
		The INC leaders began their meetings on Monday and were to have talks yesterday with Edward Walker, assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs.
		Iraq's immediate neighbours, including Turkey, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, are not enthusiastic about the INC - a factor that is bound to weigh in Powell's calculations.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=9019 (672 words)

	Car of the Month - November 2003 - Rolls-Royce Phantom IV
		When H.M. The King Ghasi I. of Iraq died in 1939 his son Faisal was at the age of 4, hence his uncle Prince Abd al-Ilah became Prince Regent.
		In 1953 — the year of his 18thbirthday — Faisal came of age; in May 1953 the coronation was celebrated.
		His Royal Highness The Prince Abd al-Ilah — as previously mentioned reigning Iraq as Prince Regent for Crown Prince Faisal — did order 2 Rolls-Royce Phantom IV to be bodied by Hooper: one car as a Limousine for the future King, a second one as a Touring Limousine for his personal use.
	www.rrab.com /nov03.htm (757 words)

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