Talk:Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni

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'Abd-al-Ra'uf al-Qidwa al-Husayni, better known as Yasser Arafat (a distant relative) is reputed to have fought with him[1] and to have been his personal secretary.[2]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ↑  Sayigh, 2000, p. 81.
  2. ↑  Robinson, 1997, p. 13.


This is disputed in Said K. Aburish: Arafat (1998). Aburish writes that:

  • Arafat was not part of the famous Husayni -family; that was a myth that Arafat himself (among others) spread.
  • And the group the Arafat fought with was never in the same area as Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni. According to Aburish (p. 18): "That Arafat fought bravely in the area around Gaza [..] is confirmed by many who were with him." He then adds that there is nobody who claim they saw him outside Gaza (and Gaza was not Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni area of operation). Also that all of Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni´s military assistens were known at the time (and Arafat was not one of them).

--Regards, Huldra 08:59, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

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