The Arab Bauth Party - A History of the Middle East

In 1932, Iraq becomes a dependence and then during World War II, Britain reoccupies Iraq for a while. There was of course a revolt, they wanted to be independent. So the Britain, what Britain did is, it appointed a Faisal, the son of Hussein Ben Ali, Ben Ali, who is the Sharif of Mecca as king. Now Mecca is a Saudi Arabia, they plucked somebody out of Saudi Arabia and said, we can't give you Saudi Arabia because that is owned by the Sa'ud family. So we'll give Faisal,. we'll given Faisal Iraq in exchange, so they don't fight over Saudi Arabia. I mean that's literally