Shitrit had announced his intentions to propose a new standard gauge railway to connect Haifa, Israel, to Irbid, Jordan, passing through King Hussein Bridge and Jenin, a project that could cost as much as $ 300 million ( for the Jordanian portion of the line ).

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" In January 1952, he and a number of unidentified officers attempted to kill the royalist general Hussein Sirri Pasha by firing their submachine guns at his car as he drove through the streets of Cairo.

Jordan's King Hussein permitted the construction of the Intercontinental Hotel at the summit of the Mount of Olives together with a road that cut through the cemetery which destroyed hundreds of Jewish graves, some from the First Temple Period.

Hussein claimed to be a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his belonging to the ancient Hashemite family.

* UN weapons inspectors Ritter and Smidovitch learn, through Israeli intelligence reports, that Qusay Hussein, Saddam's son, is the key player in hiding Iraq's illegal weapons.

Much of Najaf's heritage was badly damaged during the rule of Saddam Hussein, with a highway being driven through the middle of the Wādī ' u s-Salām.

Following a ministerial crisis in February 1942, the British government, through its ambassador in Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson, pressed Farouk to have a Wafd or Wafd-coalition government replace Hussein Sirri Pasha's government.

In a news release announcing its formation, the group said its goal was to " promote regional peace, political freedom and international security through replacement of the Saddam Hussein regime with a democratic government that respects the rights of the Iraqi people and ceases to threaten the community of nations.

The CIA reportedly paid Hobeika ( through Lebanese army intelligence officers ) to assassinate Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of the militant Shi ' ite group Hezbollah because Fadlallah was considered by US officials to have taken part in planning the October 1983 bombing of the US marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 servicemen.

Years later, scholars searching through the declassified files in the National Archives discovered evidence that Palestine had been pledged to Hussein.

Tun Hussein was renowned for stressing on the issue of unity through policies aimed at rectifying economic imbalances between the communities.

The cordon and search went through 2, 400 apartments, 53 additional buildings and seized: more than 220 AK-47 assault rifles, along with a number of machine guns, pistols and other rifles ; five rocket propelled grenades and 15 RPG sights ; 10 grenades ; 12 mortar sights ; various electrical components associated with improvised explosive devise construction ; Russian-made night vision devices ; protective masks ; 24 plates of body armor and a U. S .- made vest ; Saddam Hussein paraphernalia ; and 16 cases of U. S. military meals, ready to eat.

* Syed is a title inherited by male descendants, through the male line, from the Prophet Muhammad via his grandsons Hassan and Hussein.

* April 9 – Tens of thousands of demonstrators, many of them supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, march through Baghdad denouncing the U. S. occupation of Iraq, two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, and rally in the square where his statue was toppled in 2003.

* April 9-Tens of thousands of demonstrators loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr march through Baghdad denouncing the US occupation of Iraq, two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations were made by U. S. Government officials who claimed that a highly secretive relationship existed between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the radical Islamist militant organization Al-Qaeda from 1992 to 2003, specifically through a series of meetings reportedly involving the Iraqi Intelligence Service ( IIS ).

In 1990, Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing Iraqi petroleum through slant drilling, although some Iraqi sources indicated Saddam Hussein ’ s decision to attack Kuwait was made only a few months before the actual invasion.

Less than a year later, the then Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. Hussein Muhammad Ershad in 1982 March 24 took power in a silent coup at dawn, suspended the constitution and imposed martial law and remained in power through farce elections and corruption.

These armor-plated bulldozers broke the paths through Saddam Hussein ’ s so-called " Wall of Death " minefields and other fortified barriers, opening the roads along which the Marine divisions pursued and defeated the Iraqi army.

* 2003 – Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard.

* 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face " serious consequences ".

When the Ottoman Empire surrendered in 1918, the United Kingdom refused to keep to the letter of its arrangements with Hussein, and the two nations assumed guardianship of Mesapotamia, Lebanon, Palestine and what became modern Syria.

Despite Ekéus ' belief that Iraq was nearly certifiable as being free of such weapons, U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that United Nations sanctions would not be lifted until such time as Hussein was no longer in power.

With the support of the Arab states, the United States, and Europe, and heavily financed by the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Saddam Hussein had become " the defender of the Arab world " against a revolutionary Iran.

These chemical weapons were developed by Iraq from materials and technology supplied primarily by West German companies as well as the Reagan administration of the United States which also supplied Iraq with " satellite photos showing Iranian deployments " and advised Hussein to bomb civilian targets in Tehran and other Iranian cities.

After the passing of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441, which demanded that Iraq give " immediate, unconditional and active cooperation " with UN and IAEA inspections, Hussein allowed U. N. weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix to return to Iraq.

* Executive Orders ( 1996 ) – Saddam Hussein is assassinated ; Iran and Iraq merge forming the United Islamic Republic ; the UIR launches a biological attack on the U. S. using the Ebola virus ; the US launches the Second Persian Gulf War against the UIR and defeats them ; the Ayatollah is killed in a smart-bomb attack by the US.

* In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq over concerns leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction including chemical and biological weapons.

* February 20 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U. N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and Britain.

* November 8 – Iraq disarmament crisis: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves UN Security Council Resolution 1441, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face " serious consequences ".

The stance of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was that Saddam Hussein had to leave and Iraq had to disarm, but that a solution had to be found by diplomatic means, and that military action could only be considered if that failed and only after approval by the United Nations.

Investigators also found that the firm violated the terms of the United Nations ' Oil-for-Food Programme with Iraq by giving kickbacks worth 10 % of the contract values to officials within the Iraqi government, then led by Saddam Hussein.

Hussein Mohamed Farrah, son of General Aidid, immigrated to the United States when he was 17 years old.

King Hussein arrived in Cairo on 30 May and committed Jordan to the United Arab Command — an alliance which also included Egypt and Syria — under the command of Egyptian general Muhammad Sidqi.

On 29 September 1998, the United States Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act supporting the efforts of Iraqi opposition groups to remove Saddam Hussein from office.

It was formed with the aid and direction of the United States government following the Gulf War, for the purpose of fomenting the overthrow of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Among foreign visitors welcomed by Sauvé were King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Hussein of Jordan, Pope John Paul II, Secretary-General of the United Nations Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, French president François Mitterrand, Chinese president Li Xiannian, Romanian president Nicolae Ceauşescu, Mother Teresa, and, eventually, President Reagan.

Following the mandate of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441, The president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, allowed UN inspectors to return to Iraq in November 2002.

: In a statement read on Iraqi state television, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said the hostage-taking would eventually benefit the United States and Israel in undermining Islam: " It's not wise for the Chechens to lose the sympathy of Russia and the Russian people.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 is a United Nations Security Council resolution adopted unanimously by the United Nations Security Council on 8 November 2002, offering Iraq under Saddam Hussein " a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations " that had been set out in several previous resolutions ( Resolution 660, Resolution 661, Resolution 678, Resolution 686, Resolution 687, Resolution 688, Resolution 707, Resolution 715, Resolution 986, and Resolution 1284 ).

:" It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime.

The United States and the UK asserted that Saddam Hussein still possessed large hidden stockpiles of WMD in 2003, and that he was clandestinely procuring and producing more.