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Italy last week acquired the services of one of the wiliest anti-British leaders of the Moslem world. Haj Amin El-Husseini, exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, specializes in spectacular escapes from the wrath of the British Empire, whose peace he has been disturbing for the past 21 years...
Later he fled to Syria, from Syria to Bagdad, capital of Iraq. After participating in the Iraqi coup this spring, he escaped to Iran. When British and Russians occupied that country the Grand Mufti disappeared...
...Still being paged by the British was explosion-whiskered Haj Amin El-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. They want to see him about some Arab riots in Palestine and a revolt in Iraq last spring. The Russians were trying to trace a character known as Roman Gamotta, believed to be a German onetime naval officer who cannot let sleepy Arabs lie. That neither could be found did not add to the royal boots-man's popularity with the Allies...
...subjects were packed sardine-tight, living in tents. Hundreds more had fled to the provinces and were in hiding. It was reported that the Allies would round them up, send them to India and Siberia. Also allegedly somewhere in Iran was explosion-whiskered Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who engineered Arab riots in Palestine, helped Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani stage his revolt in Iraq. The British had him paged...
...Grand Mufti has great influence in India...