| Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini was a model patriot in his love of his homeland and was the most prominent Palestinian field commanders in guerrilla war, the most experienced, and the most effective | Two years later he resigned his official post to work in nationalist activity |
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| He was accused of collaboration with Zionist and British leaders against the Iraqi revolt and was assassinated in Baghdad in 1941 by an unknown gunman while on a visit to Iraq | Owing to constant harassment and pursuit by the British military, and shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Husseini moved first to Lebanon and then to Iraq where he joined a special training session for reserve officers in Baghdad, graduating as an officer six months later |
He then taught mathematics at the Military Academy al-Rashid Camp and also at the Tafayyud Intermediate School in Baghdad.
| He obtained his secondary school certificate matriculation in 1927 | Under his command these forces achieved a number of significant victories against the Zionists forces in Jerusalem and nearby settlements and in lines of communications leading to them |
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| In December 1947, Husseini slipped back into Palestine through the Egyptian border | His father was Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini, and his mother was Zakiyya al-Husseini |
He won the absolute love of his fellow freedom fighters for his decency, high-mindedness, courage, and honesty.
6| He wanted the committee to supply him with arms equal to what the Zionists possessed in order to defend Jerusalem | Following the collapse of the revolt in July of that year, he was arrested and exiled to the town of Zakhu on the frontier with Turkey |
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| Husseini returned from Damascus deeply disappointed, having failed in his mission to the Military Committee, and headed directly to the field where he led a desperate counter-attack to recover the village of al-Qastal; he was killed in battle on 8 April 1948 | In April 1941, he participated in the revolt of the nationalist Iraqi officers led by Prime Minister Rashid Ali al-Kailani against the British forces |
At his graduation ceremony in 1932 he stood up and accused the university of being a tool of imperialism and was promptly expelled from Egypt.
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