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...Musa el Husseini, cousin of Jerusalem's exiled Mufti and Ph.D. of London and Berlin universities, lay in his Amman prison cell one night last week and talked about going to Argentina to become a farmer. He could not believe that Jordan would hang him and three others for plotting the murder of King Abdullah. For days telegrams had been pouring into Amman pleading and warning against carrying out the sentence of the military court...
Above the judges' heads on the wall of the Amman courtroom hung a black-draped picture of Jordan's late King Abdullah, his eyes fixed sternly on the proceedings. On trial: ten alleged accomplices of the little tailor's apprentice, a terrorist disciple of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who fired five bullets into Abdullah at Jerusalem's Mosque of the Rock (TIME, July...
After a nine-day trial, the military court announced its verdict: death for four of the accused, including Dr. Musa el Husseini, the Mufti's cousin, who loudly pleaded for mercy; acquittal for four others, including an Arab-born Roman Catholic priest. Also sentenced to death in absentia: Colonel Abdullah el Tel, a Mufti man and former officer in Jordan's Arab Legion, described by the prosecution as the kingpin of the plot, and Musa el Ayubi, a grocer named as the colonel's go-between, who in his own hand had written the note ordering...
...Amin el Husseini (59), Mufti of Jerusalem, veteran plotter against British rule in the Middle East, and ruthless enemy of the West. Spent most of World War II in Berlin. In 1946, while awaiting trial in Paris as a war criminal, he escaped, since then has lived in Egypt as King Farouk's honored guest. Ambition: to be head of an independent Palestinian state. Methods: 1) recruiting of an Arab army from the 800,000 bitter, hopeless refugees driven from their homes by the Arab-Israeli war; 2) murder and terrorism through such groups as his own "Salvation Army...
...talk went on, the Mufti's men passed out word that there would be a six weeks' moratorium on killings. After that, if the Mufti & Co. did not get their way, violence would start up again. Likely first target: John Bagot Glubb, the Briton who heads the Arab Legion...