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  • Re: A Quora - into Mufti of Jerusalem

    From a425couple@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 10 08:55:35 2023
    On 4/10/23 08:48, a425couple wrote:
    On 4/10/23 07:54, a425couple wrote:
    On 4/10/23 01:28, DAN wrote:
    a425couple wrote:


    In 1941 my dad found himself in Basra Iraq as a signaller attached to >>>>> the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) relieving RAF Habbaniya.
    Here
    occcured the last biplane air war in the west with RAF Gloucester
    Gladiators defearing the Italian CR-42's

    Do you know where those Italian CR-42's had flown from?
    I'm just drawing a blank on where the Italians were
    based and what they might have been trying to do.

    They flew out of Mosul.

    OK, so the Italians in 1941 had a military airbase
    in northern Iraq, close to Turkey and Syria.
    Why?  What military actions were they trying to
    support?


    OK, now I have found and read:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_War

    And in continuation,
    example of Palestinians never missing a chance to make a
    bad decision:

    "While Rashid Ali and his supporters were in alliance with the Fascist
    Regime in Italy[160] the war demonstrated that Iraq's independence was
    at best conditional on British approval of the government's
    actions.[citation needed] Rashid Ali and the Mufti of Jerusalem fled to
    Persia, then to Turkey, then to Italy, and finally to Berlin, Germany,
    where Ali was welcomed by Hitler as head of the Iraqi government-in-exile.[citation needed]

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  • From DAN@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 11 11:05:19 2023
    a425couple wrote:

    And in continuation,
    example of Palestinians never missing a chance to make a
    bad decision:

    "While Rashid Ali and his supporters were in alliance with the Fascist
    Regime in Italy[160] the war demonstrated that Iraq's independence was
    at best conditional on British approval of the government's
    actions.[citation needed] Rashid Ali and the Mufti of Jerusalem fled to >Persia, then to Turkey, then to Italy, and finally to Berlin, Germany,
    where Ali was welcomed by Hitler as head of the Iraqi >government-in-exile.[citation needed]

    he also proclaimed himself the spiritual leader of the Muslim SS troops, made speeches to help recruit the 13th SS division 'Handshar' (basically Bosnian Muslim SS).

    But he was not alone in this time of endeavor: every time Rommel would look like
    he's winning, the Egyptians covered Cairo with Nazi flags...

    Oh well. That didn't stop the Brit military from continuing to choose the Arabs'
    side all the way until 1949...

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