| 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 | 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 |
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| He then taught mathematics at the Military Academy al-Rashid Camp and also at the Tafayyud Intermediate School in Baghdad | At the end of March 1948, Husseini travelled to Damascus to contact the Military Committee of the Arab League, which was in charge of the fighting in Palestine |
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.
18| Husseini returned secretly to Palestine in 1938 to continue the fight when the armed revolution had escalated | He and his wife, Wajiha al-Husseini, had one daughter, Haifa, and three sons: Musa, Faisal, and Ghazi |
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| Palestinian Personalities: A Biographic Dictionary | He enrolled in the Science faculty of the American University in Cairo to study mathematics |
He won the absolute love of his fellow freedom fighters for his decency, high-mindedness, courage, and honesty.
8| While in the Syrian capital he heard the news that a major Zionist attack had been launched against Jerusalem; the attackers had succeeded in occupying the village of al-Qastal, a highly strategic position overlooking the main road between Jerusalem and Jaffa | Husseini was one of the founders of the armed Holy Jihad Organization in the Jerusalem district |
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| The Iraqi government released him at the end of 1943 | 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 |
When the Arab Higher Committee announced the jihad following the UN Partition Resolution, Husseini reformed the Army of Holy War Jaysh al-jihad al-muqaddis and was chosen to command them.