[Dallas]

Big pinggggggggg.

[crystalk]

Hassan-Hussein Hashemite ping, a dynasty to conjure with, house of Saud pointed up as usurpers not descended from Muhammad, nor of the dynasty ruling in Mecca in days of Muhammad...

[Thinkin' Gal]

Thanks for the bump. There is so much intermarriage, that Feisal II may have been Hassan's great uncle (those Hashemite geneology charts can fry the brain). However, paternally Feisal II was Hassan's second cousin (their grandfathers were brothers).

Furthermore, there is an 'official' heir to the Iraqi throne, Prince Raad bin Zeid, who is the son of Feisal II's heir. That was Zeid bin Hussein, the youngest brother of Feisal I and thus Feisal II's great uncle.

That said, I suspect that there is a royal pecking order for the spoils of Iraq, which starts and stops with Abdullah II. Maybe what will be done post Saddam, is the elimination of the little border between Jordan and Iraq. We shall just have to watch and see.

[Jeremiah Jr]

We must remove the anticaliph Saddam, and replace him with 'Abd al-Malik, er I mean Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, got it?