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Hussein
[ hoo-seyn ]
noun
- Also ·; · [] al-Husayn, a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.
- ·岹 [sah-, dahm], at-Takriti, 1937–2006, Iraqi political leader: president 1979–2003.
Hussein
/ ʊˈɪ /
noun
- AlsoHusain Hussein19351999MJordanianPOLITICS: hereditary ruler 1935–99, king of Jordan (1952–99)
- HusseinSaddam19372006MIraqiPOLITICS: politicianPOLITICS: head of state Saddam (sæˈdæm). 1937–2006, Iraqi politician: president (1979–2003) and prime minister (1994–2003) of Iraq. He led Iraq into the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) and the Gulf War (1991) but was deposed and captured in the US-led invasion of 2003; executed 2006
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"This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!" he continued, calling Boasberg "a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama."
King Hussein, father to Abdullah, fought a pitched battle against the Palestinian Liberation Organization that led to the group’s ouster from the country in 1970.
In 1970, King Hussein — Abdullah’s father — crushed Palestinian factions operating in the country, going so far as to shell refugee camps in the capital and the country’s north.
First the convoy must go through Israeli customs at the King Hussein/Allenby Bridge border crossing.
At the meeting in Jordan, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein expressed concern over Syria's future shared across the Middle East and beyond.
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