PALESTINE - May 31 - Husseini Dies.(Faisal Husseini, Palestinian Authority official)(Brief Article)

From: APS Diplomat Recorder | Date: June 2, 2001 | Copyright information

Husseini, 61, is found dead in his hotel room in Kuwait City after suffering a heart attack. (He was born on July 17, 1940, in Baghdad after the authorities of the British Mandate in Palestine had expelled his father, Palestine hero Abdel Khader Husseini, and a cousin, Haj Amin Husseini, then the grand mufti of Jerusalem. He was reared in Cairo, underwent military training in Iraq and Syria, and was a founder of the PLO and an early associate of Arafat. Organising and dispensing fu...

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