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...Cairo news agency went so far as to declare that 23-year-old King Feisal died of a heart attack after his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah. slapped his face for wanting to surrender to the rebels. In Manhattan, Iraq's new delegate to the U.N. shrugged that the King's death was just one of those things. "Feisal," said he, "was very much liked, but unfortunately he was under the complete control of his uncle. The poor chap was young, with very little experience...
...unsuspecting young King and his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, 46, were getting ready to fly to Istanbul for an emergency meeting of the Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact. Seeing the gathering crowd, they went outside the palace. According to the rebels, the palace guard fired into the crowd, killed 14. The soldiers returned the fire. Feisal was killed, along with Crown Prince Abdul Illah, the Crown Prince's mother, two nurses and two palace guardsmen...
Nasser's Middle East News Agency gleefully described the assassination of Crown Prince Abdul Illah: "The people dragged Abdul Illah's body into the street like that of a dog and tore it limb from limb." Then the mobs burned the body. It was Abdul Illah who ruled Iraq as regent until Feisal became King...
...Radio, rechristened "Free Iraq Radio," and Nasser's announcers in Egypt and Syria, came sketchy details, whose authenticity had to be measured against the plotters' desire to stir further panic. Broadcasts said that the junta had seized the capital city before dawn, that wispy Crown Prince Abdul Illah, uncle of the young King, had been assassinated. The fate of 23-year-old King Feisal, ruler of the five-month-old Arab Union of Iraq and Jordan, and of 70-year-old Strongman Nuri asSaid was unknown. First broadcast said that Nuri, great friend of the West, had been...
...Happiest Moment." With this obstacle to unity neatly bypassed, Iraq's pouchy-eyed Crown Prince Abdul Illah flew to Amman to make the clinching decisions for his nephew, King Feisal. But another deadlock still loomed. Hussein's negotiators battled doggedly to get their master equal turns with Feisal as head of state. At 4 a.m. King Hussein, who needed federation far more than his oil-rich cousin, rose and announced that he would defer to Feisal as head of state. Hussein went into a stenographer's office to supervise typing of the final draft...