Bloodbath in Baghdad - Murder of Iraqi King & The Rise of Saddam Hussein

[@vatsalsaxena8813]

For anyone wondering what happened to the sole survivor of the brutal massacre, Princess Badiya made it out of Iraq alive and passed away in 2020 in London, aged 100.

[@johndough1703]

Women: Having it easy since "Ooh ooh, aah aah"

[@Tko_Seven]

Anglo-Saxons are real good at divide and conquer.

[@GM-xk1nw]

​@@johndough1703 we don't give birth, we do not get forcibly married.

[@frantisekcenek1199]

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[@NiskaMagnusson]

@@johndough1703 who hurt you?

[@Yoshimitsu696]

Good to see you covering this Dr Felton. As an Iraqi, i have heard this story in various anecdotes throughout my life. To understand it from a reliable historian like yourself made me very happy indeed!

[@bob-g3e3x]

he is not a "reliable historian", do your own research

[@h.b.7104]

He forgot the most important part--that the CIA brought the Baath to power. What kind of historian would do that?

[@100milliongamesandmore9]

​@@h.b.7104 Why would the CIA help bring a pan-Arab pro-Islamic party to power exactly ?

[@el_giggi8185]

@@h.b.7104 As a historian, he is able to tell two different events apart. This video deals primarily with the ousting of the royal family and not the coup against Qasim.

[@h.b.7104]

@@el_giggi8185 The title of this video is in part "The Rise of Saddam Hussein." You cannot tell that story without focusing on 1963--the Baathist coup against Qassim aided by the CIA.

[@Mediatech492]

The problem with taking power by regicide is that it leaves a really bad example for your successor.

[@barryirlandi4217]

😂😂😂

[@minhthunguyendang9900]

with dire consequences for oneself

[@moamber1]

@@minhthunguyendang9900 Soviets disagree. They killed their idiot monarch with no consequences, except for British temper tantrum.

[@insertnamehere5809]

That's why Chairman Mao didn't kill Pu Yi, because if he became a good Maoist (which he became) that was a great PR coup for Mao, compared to how the Soviets deposed the Romanovs.

[@AryanKumar-fz2dm]

@@insertnamehere5809 That is true, due to ongoing Sino-Soviet split, mao wanted to show the soviets that see, we do not kill our head of the previous royal government, like how you did. I didn't know that Pu-Yi became a maoist in later years.

[@jammie2475]

Thank you for not over-producing these history videos. I can't watch videos that have music and sound effects constantly. Watching your channel is like reading a picture book. :)

[@russwoodward8251]

This history corroborates with the stories told to me by an employee who worked for me at a Holiday Inn in 1978. His last name was Feisal too, though he never claimed to be of any royal family, and he was a fantastically talented, speaking 3 languages, and having a excellent knowledge of economics. Thanks again Dr. Felton.

[@LavrentiiCS]

Faisal was the King's name - his family clan name was Hashemite.

[@m420-nd1if]

Only americans are impressed by someone speaking 3 languages 😂

[@SiVlog1989]

One of my work colleagues is a Syrian expat now living in the UK, when I showed him this video, he was both fascinated and and pleased that there's history of European history in the Middle East videos that exist in the West. He asked me to thank Dr Felton for this video :)

[@DaveSCameron]

Shocked..? There’s countless publications that explain this awful era of UN/France/British well intentioned acts and lets be honest people require leaders and we Could argue the merits of who they are forever but they ended up with Saddam after this, a man who murdered many of his own people and caused -2 wars.

[@Manco65]

I just love how some apparently would want the region to be nothing but a totally and allegedly "free and independent" place.🙄 Where the civilization is a medieval or worse cross between the "Sand People' of Star Wars and our own troglodytes. Where women are treated like animals and animals are treated like women. Yeah greatwowee..🙄

[@ArizonaAstraLLC]

​@@DaveSCameron Sadaam did horrible things but If he didn't start those two wars (Iran-Iran War 1982 and GulfWar because of his 1990 invasion occupation / annexation of Kuwait) It would be in good shape The Iran-Iraq War alone cost both sides 1 trillion USD and destroyed Iraq's military and economy; they were existing off of rich Saudi and Emirati loans The man was his own worst enemy

[@BonShula]

What a ignorant co-worker

[@Enhancedlies]

free speech is a powerful thing

[@Valkanna.Nublet]

When the Ottoman empire was carved up and Iraq created containing Sunni Shia and Kurds there was no way that country would be peaceful. It didn't matter who was in power, the other factions would hate it. It's no surprise that there was coup, counter-coup, and counter-counter-coup, where only force could keep control.

[@thatlittlevoice6354]

It's almost as if differing cultures being forced upon each other is a bad thing.

[@brt1996]

Well, it was comparatively more peaceful before the Ottoman empire was carved up

[@AsYm-PtOtiC]

@@brt1996 more peaceful !.. you are not only a ignorant but a fool as well.. in the past two decades, over a million were killed. just in iraq & continuing.

[@-.Steven]

​@@thatlittlevoice6354 That seems to be the british / globalist modis operandi.

[@moistbuttmonkey]

​@@mamin7187interesting.

[@captainjoshuagleiberman2778]

One point missed, Faisal was given Iraq by the British as a consolation prize. Faisal was promised Arabia for his support of the British during WWI and instead Arabia went to the House of Saud, hence Saudi Arabia.

[@aus_aircon_ref_mech6671]

No! Sharif Hussein was promised rule over the whole of Arabia and The Levant, as well as Mesopotamia. In exchange for rebelling against the Ottoman Turks, thereby aiding the British. The Arabs fulfilled their part of the deal, but were back stabbed by the British in the wake of the Sykes-Picot agreement and The Balfour Declaration. In true British style, the sons of Sharif Hussein ended up being installed by The British as puppet rulers over Transjordan and Iraq (although the Iraqi Hashemites did initially take power over Syria but were defeated at the battle of Maysaloun by the French in 1922). Really Dr. Felton “partial British interference” are you kidding me. The reason the Middle East is in such a mess was precisely BECAUSE the British back-stabbed the arabs and ended up dividing the whole of the Middle East between themselves and the French! Giving Palestine away and fighting proxy wars in the region. It’s already bad the general public have no clue about the history of the Middle East but to tell half-truths is just as bad.

[@ElectroAtletico]

Arabia "DID NOT GO" to the Sauds. They won a tribal war.

[@aus_aircon_ref_mech6671]

“partly caused by British interference….”a subtle way of saying that a superpower can and will screw over everyone in that part of the world because they can….

[@aus_aircon_ref_mech6671]

In this video if you replace the word “British” with the word “USA”….the narrative will exactly match the events of the past 25-30 years. Funny how some things don’t change….

[@captainjoshuagleiberman2778]

@@ElectroAtletico which if the British kept their bargain with Faisal, the Sauds would have lost.

[@Omar-hs9hy]

My family was close to the Royal family in Iraq. Here's an interesting story about King Faisal II from my grandmother. She was at a friends birthday party and Crown prince Faisal was invited as well (he was a teenager at the time), he couldn't find a chair and was too shy to sit on the couch next to some girls so found a small foot stool and sat on that! Such was his humility. Till this day my grandmother considers the 14th of July 1958 as the blackest day in Iraq's history which is riddled with black days..Many thanks Dr Felton!

[@anorthedge4422]

Thanks for that story. I agree, I know a number of Iraqis who think the period of the monarchy was the time of the greatest peace and calm in Iraq's independent history.

[@christopher5846]

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades. But by all means tell us more about your parties.

[@egisantoso949]

@@christopher5846#1 dictatorship too. 😮

[@islammokhtar2926]

@@egisantoso949 that's better than a fake democratic front where people choose the face of it and the real administration is done by a deep state, where physical oppression was replaced by sensationally overwhelming cultures. Don't kid yourself it's all a semantics game.

[@NazTheGreat]

So is the West @@egisantoso949

[@paulus12345]

Of all the videos you have made (& I have watched ALL of them), this is the one that is the most meaningful to me, as it explains the reason why my father & grandparents left Iraq in the1950's- early 60's.This was something I wasn't able to find out from my father as he died when I was too young to understand. THANK YOU!

[@wabumbo]

Ahmed Chalabi wrote this comment

[@JakeRekab-d4b]

Agree, never had I seen nor read a short story as to what, why and how the Middle East has become the Middle East of today. Information on the history over there seems so secretive and mysterious or historical confusion.

[@imf3z]

@@JakeRekab-d4bthey don’t want you to see all the Anglo influence. Oil baby!

[@barahng]

I know your specialty is WW2 but I love when you cover lesser known episodes in history like this.

[@Mrkhan641]

It seems like all the major regional issues link back to the British.... Palestine/Israel, Hong Kong/Taiwan/China, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Kashmir/India/Pakistan.....Don't you think they are the real culprits?

[@Wasteland88]

​@@Mrkhan641Reported for spam

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@Mrkhan641 While Britain has had a hand in many of the world's problems, I don't think it had anything to do with Taiwan. The countries which sent occupying forces there included Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands, and later China and Japan. Taiwan is as Chinese as Tibet and Turkestan. When the Ottoman Empire was carved up after World War I, France got Syria and Lebanon, so the French should take more blame for what happened there.

[@Group_Anonymous]

@@Mrkhan641 usa

[@g.mantua1195]

Excellent video. This is why I subscribed. The WW2 stuff is good, but it's great when you go beyond that and into other histories, it's appreciated. Now I know more about Iraq history. Thanks Dr, Felton.

[@otisarmyalso]

yes coverage of BE demise though painful is necessary to understand how the world fell in barbarism

[@ArachKing]

5:27 Tintin creator Hergé used this picture of Faisal II as the inspiration for the character of Abdullah in the Tintin books

[@AryanKumar-fz2dm]

That's interesting.

[@ForceSmart]

Damn! I knew that photo reminded me of something when I saw it!

[@innerlotuslight]

My granddad was a diplomat in Baghdad in the 1950s. My dad and his brother were out riding their bikes in Baghdad on 14 July 1958, and they saw the Kings body being dragged through the streets along with the Prime Minister’s too.

[@BlackJesus8463]

Thats wild.

[@polishherowitoldpilecki5521]

Which nation

[@Jaderabbit9]

Irabia😂​@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521

[@shawnegh9833]

Very sad

[@Wasteland88]

Paliswhine

[@eiongibbs6687]

I went to Harrow School and left 13 years ago. I was in the same house that Faisal was in called Moretons. His picture hung on the wall next to a notice board and we would take it with us to inter-house sports matches as a talisman. Such a sad story, thank you for sharing.

[@drpepperr]

I very much appreciate this thorough presentation. Thank you, Dr. Felton.

[@kestrel8787]

When you said succeeded by a child, my brain automatically replied, “Well that’s going to end well.”

[@ScandzaVaeringjar]

*Game of Thrones theme starts playing*

[@claudius3359]

*Puyi flashbacks*

[@AryanKumar-fz2dm]

It did not always end in trouble. At times, child kings and queens grew up to become good leaders.

[@christopher5846]

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades.

[@votewaldo9876]

Now Iraq is a colony of Iran

[@rubberduckindustries6665]

My final tour was in Iraq in 2004. What a waste of lives, money, and time. Never again.

[@Monkey-ud8bw]

I know what you mean, it was an absolute shit show. The politicians messed up and the British Army paid the price.

[@chicorodriguez3964]

I'm sorry you had to go through that brother but for what it's worth thank you for your service my friend

[@fload46d]

We veterans of Vietnam feel the same way.

[@rubberduckindustries6665]

@@chicorodriguez3964 Don't be sorry for me, be sorry for what we did to those people. By the way the EXACT SAME PEOPLE are trying to start another war with everything they have in Ukraine. Fuck that.

[@at1970]

Were it so

[@BossVolt]

Ironically enough, with all of the instability and warring going on in that part of the world, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is one of the few that has maintained any sort of real, noticeable stability.

[@christopher5846]

It's also a vassal reliant on foreign aid and ironically was reliant on the Iraqi republic for Its economy.

[@Betterifitsfree]

Why do you think it has been that way?

[@lacameyangarsenal8157]

​@@Betterifitsfreebecause it's a monarchy

[@Thaeralail]

السبب الوحيد في استقرار الأردن هو بسبب عدد اللاجئين الفلسطينيين فيها لذلك كل الدول التي تدعم إسرائيل تحميها كي لا يعود أهل فلسطين لبلادهم ... فالهدف الرئيسي هو حماية إسرائيل وليس الأردن انا من الأردن

[@daphuc502]

Israel is the only reason why Jordan still survive as a country and Palestine still survive as an idea.

[@----jiz7048]

As a descendant of a jewish baghdadi family i can only be sorry that the terrible massacre of the jewish community known as the farhud in june 1941, inspired by the germans and the events in europe was not mentioned.

[@wafflelite]

Was your family part of the Baghdadi Jewish community? My parents hometown of Kirkuk once had a prominent Jewish community as well until those events.

[@waverunner7063]

They blamed the Jews for supporting the British efforts to reverse the coup against the king.

[@yelenashishkina8804]

@@wafflelite why Jewish lived in Baghdad and not in Israel? It is strange for me: Most Jewish live outside of Israel. Why they don't want to live in their country?

[@christopher5846]

@@----jiz7048 You're making stuff up with the last bit. It was the other way around and it was under the monarchy.

[@Hwje1111]

@@christopher5846didn’t it get overthrown for a brief period?

[@thejudgmentalcat]

Another segment of history I've heard little about. Thanks Professor Felton 👍

[@tmacfan824]

Thank you for the content Dr. Felton

[@TheFunkybert]

Incredible historical account with valuable film and photographic presentation. Thank you so much for this effort. History as it was.

[@christopher5846]

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades.

[@Mrkhan641]

@@christopher5846 It seems like all the major regional issues link back to the British.... Palestine/Israel, Hong Kong/Taiwan/China, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Kashmir/India/Pakistan.....Don't you think they are the real culprits?

[@chrisfrost8456]

​@@Mrkhan641 Yes British Had too much influence in the Muddle East ,our only interest was obviously the Oil we can go back to WW1 for that is when the British drew up the border between Persia and Arabia, after that and towards WW2 American influences too over after the Jordanian war and money,British power in the area lost any influence and Europe now reep a whirlwind of Displaced People, we had influence in that area but Chose the Oil instead.

[@mirko3333]

I am Kurdish from Iraq and a subscriber of this great channel. We have a saying about the nature's of the Iraqi people and thir mob mentality and their conditioning to be ruled with an iron fist. The story of the graphic killing of the king reminds me of some of the stories of Fitna that led to the death of other historic figures during the middle ages and earlier in Iraq. Thank you for making this video. It is refreshing to hear the narration of this story from a foreigner.

[@omerjameel3524]

U mean imam Hussein (ra) betrayed by Shias in Kufa and killed by ummayids Sunnis

[@barryirlandi4217]

اللهم صل وسلم على نبينا محمد

[@mayanktripathi8726]

mob mentality is the foundation of Islam...muslim mobs have killed many muslims as well as non muslims in the name of jihad

[@geraldfordman7474]

Thank you for sharing.

[@Peace_Guard]

As a Pole, I guess it's much easier to be like this when you have a divide and conquer strategy forced upon you by the Western powers and you live in a ethnically and religiously divided society with constant influence of foreign imperialism wanting your resources. Then each ethnic and religion group wants it's share of power and also everyone views the others as foreign powers' collaborators while themselves not.

[@bartgallant6897]

So grateful for you. The intensity and detail of your scholarship combined with your narration and film really brings history to life. Many thanks!

[@jasonpayne1240]

@Mark Felton Productions I served in Iraq in 2005. Having some historical context helps me wrap my brain around the whole experience. Cheers from the 🇺🇸

[@danielmichels1687]

Thank you, Mark for the excellent content. I always am excited to see something new pop up into the feed. While all the extreme deep diving into the Nazis is interesting, there’s so much else of potential interest out there and here is a great departure from the norm.

[@douglasb5046]

Hear hear

[@chrismccartney8668]

My grandad served Baghdad in ww1 after he survived Gallipoli.

[@scratchsescape1978]

I remember when I was about 12 years old seeing in a magazine the stripped body hanging missing hands and feet. After the many decades that region is still a brutal mess. I suspect that will never change.

[@michaelhowell2326]

Decades? I'm not sure they ever graduated from a brutal hellscape. I haven't any faith things will change anytime soon, either.

[@Redtomato7]

@@scratchsescape1978 did you also see the headless babies, malnourished women and children, limbless elderly? Hungry and destitute innocents put to the end of a JDAM so Tony Blair and the rest of the righteous Christian world could get cheaper gas ? I suspect that will never change either

[@user-vi4vm5hb5h]

I would even say it never recovered from the Mongol massacre of Baghdad.

[@tkling5909]

@@user-vi4vm5hb5h Don't be ridiculous, Ottoman rule was alright.

[@NubaNarmer]

@@tkling5909 yes, except for all the impaling of course.

[@JohnSmith-se9yl]

Brilliant! Very in-depth and illuminating. Fantastic photos and videos, your team does a great job finding them, many thanks to the team!

[@pseudonym745]

Just when you think you not know nothing, Dr. Felton comes along...Thank you so much! I can't get enough of this "why in the world haven't I heard..."

[@IantheKid125]

You should talk about the Nepalese Royal Massacre that lead to the downfall of the kingdom of Nepal

[@waverunner7063]

The one from 2001? That's a *crazy* story.

[@d.bcooper2271]

Hmmm

[@Mrkhan641]

It seems like all the major regional issues link back to the British.... Palestine/Israel, Hong Kong/Taiwan/China, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Kashmir/India/Pakistan.....Don't you think they are the real culprits?

[@dod4004]

​@@Mrkhan641simple people like simple answers. The fact that the British Empire covered a quarter of the globe makes it inevitable that a common factor would appear to be British rule. But correlation does not equal causation. Religion, nationalism and communism are always overlooked before people jump straight to imperialism as the route of all evil. Perhaps because imperialism is a very simple ideology. Easy to understand.

[@ZhanetaPetroska]

And over Macedonian in aegean part of Macedonia Paris trity versaill trity Bucharest trity ect first Balkan wars

[@monarchist1838]

I’m a British Army Reservist, several of the older lads in my regiment served in Iraq and picked up a few of Saddam’s belongings. After the fall of Baghdad in the 2003 invasion, a warrant officer friend of mine obtained Hussein’s rank slide from his palace, bearing his rank as an honorary Staff Muhib, akin to that of a naval admiral but used in his role as head of the army. Having just retired, he intends to keep hold of the rank slide and has no interest in selling it. Although he might take it to the antique roadshow. Another friend, then a young private took a container of instant coffee, which he claimed was the best ever of its kind. A product that still can’t be matched by any instant coffee in a UK supermarket. The British soldiers stationed at the palace took a few souvenirs with many making their way back to Blighty without arising suspicion from the RMPs.

[@KaasIsLekker]

So you illegally trespass in someone's home with no regard to the law of the country. Oust a representative of a country and then dare to steal his stuff? Aside from the thousands of rapes and tortures the coalition forces have unleashed on the native population.

[@martinswiney2192]

A friend of mine brought back a 50 BMG AP bullet that he had fired into an Iraqi BMP. It has the nose torn open exposing the steel core but somehow held onto its copper jacket. I still have it. Years later after much complaining by his wife about the artillery shell he was using as a door stop he gave it to me also. He had found it in the desert while still in Saudi Arabia. He tried to tell her it was an inert practice shell but she could not be convinced. I finally identified it as a German 88 practice round. I assume from WW2 era. It is solid steel and the band toward the rear has rifling marks where it was fired and a swirling skid mark on its nose where it impacted the sand. Now it’s my door stop.

[@michaelhowell2326]

I was in US Army back then and I've, uh, I've heard stories of all kinds of cool stuff being sent home in ammo storage, gun tubes and vehicle tires. I can't confirm it but I've also heard of cash being brought back in canteens and sewn into clothes.

[@dscrappylocogolani9555]

No regulations against looting or is it encouraged ... I mean given your history and all 😊

[@Gerald-o1v]

I heard of U.S. Servicemen getting captured Dragunov sharpshooters rifles in - I won't guess how , but he was sorry to hear later that I had an interest in them.

[@philipeagleton750]

Excellent work Mark! The photos of Princess Hiyam are in fact Princess Badia - frequently mixed up such as on Wikipedia. Badia escaped the massacre because she was married and lived in her own property. She lived to 100 yrs but in exile. Her son Sharif Ali bin Hussein was a tireless advocate for a constitutional monarchy. Princess Hiyam lived into her sixties in Jordan. She related her first hand witness of the massacre to Tamara Daghistani putting to rest the false propaganda that the king was wounded and was being taken to hospital.

[@DSS-jj2cw]

I participated in Desert Storm in 90 and 91. Not a big fan of the monarchy but the atrocities committed against it started a slippery slope of violence. I remember my Ohio Art globe had the United Arab Republic on it and I long wondered what it was.

[@jonthinks6238]

TY for your service.

[@DSS-jj2cw]

@@jonthinks6238 You can thank me by supporting politicians that help veterans

[@jonthinks6238]

@@DSS-jj2cw exactly

[@RonSimiyu]

How weren't u a big fan of the monarchy yet you weren't educated enough to know what the United Arab Republic was?

[@DSS-jj2cw]

@@RonSimiyu I was eight years old then

[@Gav3lo]

Bender from Futurama said it best in "A Pharaoh to Remember" "The cruelty of the old Pharaoh is a thing of the past, let a whole new wave of cruelty wash over this lazy land!"

[@jamesgarman4788]

I'm a Veteran of the first Gulf war (Desert Storm). Another great video Dr. Mark! Many thanks for posting!

[@CannibaLouiST]

@@TreeSymphony52 by being a 1st gulf war veteran hwat else??

[@JJ-tp7qq]

@@TreeSymphony52 You need to pull your panties out of your butt crack and chill!

[@KaasIsLekker]

You're not a veteran merely a non tried war criminal part of a country whose foreign policy of dealing with Iraq was worse than the morgenthau plan.

[@chicorodriguez3964]

I remember watching you guys on the TV as a kid and thinking man them guys are awesome thank you for your service brother

[@chrismanteris9093]

@@KaasIsLekkerthe main war criminals were bush and Cheney and their masters. The foot soldiers were mainly following orders

[@ashively1]

You present the complexities of the region very well. Thank you.

[@The1SuperAtheist]

I just found this channel and I'm glad I found it. It's always nice to find new channels that take on historical topics. Learning is addictive af. Especially history. Archeology is also very interesting and addictive.

[@roberste]

Dr. Felton, thank you for yet another most enlightening video. I knew a little about the 1958 coup, but I sure learned a lot after watching this. Keep up the good work!

[@av7610]

It’s a Good Friday when Dr Felton drops a video!

[@MikeB071]

The problem with getting rid of a monarchy is that you usually end up with something much, much worse.

[@TioDeive]

Even here in Brazil was like that, not comparable to Iraq and this quite sad situation of their former King, but if you look to our politicians after the coup that ousted the Emperor...

[@seanhallett7156]

‘Murica

[@chuckselvage3157]

U can't educate statues

[@tateflorell2751]

Ousting monarchies usually ends up worse. If the monarchy has any hope in self preservation, then they slowly give up privileges while the country develops a democratic voice or another way of governance. Really us in the US have a lot to thank the Brits for. They pretty much had a 500 year transition period from Magna Carta to when the Hanoverian dynasty took the crown. At that point, the King was almost in the same role as we know the royal family today. So going from absolute monarchy to a 21st century style democracy is absolutely insane to think it will go smoothly.

[@caniconcananas7687]

Yes, something much, much worse, like Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Finland, Ireland, Iceland. All horrible regimes, worse than any monarchy. That's the reason for all of the countries beyond the Iron Curtain, once free from the Soviet regime, chose not to be monarchies. That's the reason for several countries in the British Commonwealth having substituted queen Elisabeth with a republican regime. That was the reason to expel the kings of Athens, Rome and many other ancient city-states 2,500 years ago. Because the RES PUBLIC, the collective interest of the people is something the people have to mind, to care, to reflect upon... A horrible thing, I suppose, His Majesty.

[@HumanHeartIsNotJustFlesh]

Regretting that i havent come across this channel for so long. Nicely presented.

[@markusdee6136]

4:16 King Faisal died at the age of 48. But he looks like a senior citizen already.

[@AryanKumar-fz2dm]

By the way, he does appear in Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

[@Sorayako62]

People in general, in those days, tended to look older

[@AryanKumar-fz2dm]

@Sorayako62 True, especially that things we consider to be simple today, were quite harder earlier.

[@gabrieltilahuinbehabtu5592]

Captain Abdul Sattar Sabaa Al-Ibousi the man who shot the king and his family would later commit suicide due to guilt for what he did to the royals

[@rstidman]

As both a veteran of the Cola Wars and a member of the Kiss Army in a separate conflict, I thank you for reporting on matters such as these.

[@jackpavlik563]

I was in the Uncola movement…

[@Pan472]

I was gladly surprised that the Greek monarchy was brought up as an example of installed monarchies. After Otto, the next candidate for succeeding him was, as a fun fact, Prince Alfred, the son of Queen Victoria! Eventually Prince Vilhelm, who was the son of King Christian IX, eventually got into the throne, and became George I. He had a pretty long reign, almost 50 years.

[@Pan472]

​@tekinfomediWell, one integral part of the monarchy surviving that long, for 150 years almost, is the fact that Greeks expected the revival of the Byzantine Empire. Which was on its own, an absolute monarchy with theocratic elements, which survived 1100 years. It was a continuation of Rome but in almost all aspects it was a Greek state in all essence. That's why it was tolerated, because monarchies fit as a political system in Greece, plus with the expectation that Byzantium would somehow be revived.

[@carlabroderick5508]

@@Pan472 I know it will never come to pass, but a Christian cannot help but fantasize about the return of Byzantium. The Hagia was once dedicated to Sophia, the Holy Spirit. Erdogan has made it a functioning mosque. Fall of Constantinople was largely the fault of Roman Christianity, which could not prevent the sacking of Constantinople by mercenaries in the fourth crusade.

[@Mrkhan641]

It seems like all the major regional issues link back to the British.... Palestine/Israel, Hong Kong/Taiwan/China, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Kashmir/India/Pakistan.....Don't you think they are the real culprits?

[@Mrkhan641]

@@carlabroderick5508 what about thousands of Mosques converted to the Christian churches in Spain?

[@LowescC]

thank you, Mark....( a complete, thorough, gory and typically British narrative that's told many of us more then we ever wanted to know about the history of Iraq )

[@MohammadAli-sq1lj]

we have a saying in Iraq where it is said a nation who killed a Child king and the grandson of the prophet and defile their bodies in two different timelines unjustly will not see a day of happiness in their life and looking back on Iraq's situation one can only say how true this is

[@Basilreda]

Keep spewing nonsense

[@alphasylpheed3861]

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades

[@MohammadAli-sq1lj]

@@alphasylpheed3861 these republics have made today's Iraq where in every catagory iraq is in the buttom next to Somalia and Afghanistan

[@yelenashishkina8804]

@@MohammadAli-sq1lj " iraq is in the buttom next to Somalia and Afghanistan" All thanks to weak monarch and his greedy relatives.

[@christopher5846]

​@@MohammadAli-sq1lj The 2003 invasion restored all the monarchist policies. For example foreign monopolies like BP were banned from Iraq in 1958 and were only restored in 2003. You're literally crying about the monarchy because it is identical to the post 2003 regime.

[@dennyregova76]

Phenomenal! Please more videos that focus on the history of the Middle East! Truly a category that many fear to tread through, Fantastic Work!

[@Tilly042Tilford-zo7zt]

I'm currently in Iraq with work. It surprised me how many of my local colleagues mourn the loss of their king to this day.

[@RW77777777]

it could be symbolic; youth often have liberal sensibilities hope for others no one knows what the young king would become but when you look at the relative prosperity Jordan has had; it's a melancholic What if...?

[@christopher5846]

Literally all Iraqis celebrate 14 July and most young people don't even know the names of the former royalty. Stop making stuff up

[@Nawal-i4n]

​@@christopher5846You made this up. We the Iraqi youth love the Kingdom of Iraq and I have seen no one say it was bad.

[@christopher5846]

​​@@Nawal-i4n"We" okay bro 😂 That's why the constitutional monarchist party got zero seats for over 20 years while being backed by foreign powers.

[@Nawal-i4n]

@@christopher5846 Barely anyone knows of its existence. The youth still love the Kingdom no matter how you view it.

[@GAIVSCALIGVLA]

The mark of any phenomenal historian is that they can discuss any topic with great knowledge. Dr. Felton continues to exemplify this.

[@arostwocents]

You know this is researched and edited and he's reading the script? He's not just talking off the cuff 😂

[@Spy77ss]

Very great documentary details, as always like your other vides, well done mark .. by the way Capt Abdul Sattar Al Aboosi was my grandfather’s brother, and all what you mentioned in the video is very true .. also if you like to add this in future videos Sattar Al Aboosi later took out his own life and committed sui-cide in the early 70s, and prime minster Nori Saed was caught wearing a women’s cover called (Abaya ) trying to escape and was savagely and brutal Ki lled by the angry people at that time as was the fate of the crown prince .. Cheers 👍🏼

[@leenewman4344]

Great documentary as usual mark, I can remember most of this going on from when I was a child. However, your attention to detail makes it all make sense, I always enjoyed general history at school, but if you had been a teacher, it would have been a little more enjoyable. I've learnt so much detail from your videos that I didn't know!

[@MargaretCorriher]

Fantastic history lesson. I love you channel. I'm a big big history buff. I just learned something about the chain of command in Iraq. Thank you so much.🇺🇸☮️✌️

[@christopher5846]

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades.

[@RR-in7do]

Your WW2 content is fantastic, but if you did more current 20th century history, that would be amazing!

[@yolandabrinkman2653]

Try Professor Vernon Bogdanor for post WWII historic podcasts. I found them fascinating

[@jurajm7212]

Very shameful… This part of the world (be it Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and more) became underdeveloped by removing the monarchs.

[@minhthunguyendang9900]

@@jurajm7212 The evidence is heart-rending for the peoples.

[@brianp.945]

Another excellent production ! Thank you for your amazing work dr. Felton.

[@tracidtraxxed5311]

My grandad was deployed at the Suez crisis... Didn't see him in the short clips here though. 😄 Thanks for all the great videos Mark! I'm the guy who spotted you in the city a year or two ago next to the Cosy Club- hope you didn't mind me shouting 'Mark!' at you, haha, was just surprised and pleased to see you!

[@hurdygurdyman1905]

Great video as always. A little surprised you didn't mention Gertrude Bell; she would be worth her own video.

[@michaelmiller641]

Absolutely fascinating! Thankyou for that!

[@coachjonjiujitsu]

That place has a long and bloody history.

[@FYMASMD]

You mean the whole of human civilization? Typical behavior by the worst animal on this planet.

[@raymondtonns2521]

most of human history is written in blood

[@ALIKN1-1]

@@raymondtonns2521 but Iraq is land of the blood

[@joshuabessire9169]

Sargon of Akkad: "What this place needs is to be united." Mesopotamias: "How about we don't." Forgieners and Dictators ever since: "No, no, he's got a point."

[@TheOwneroftheIC]

@@joshuabessire9169 the curse of Ashurbanipal.

[@257796]

Yaaaaaas Dr. Mark. Any political situations. You're the best to tell it

[@Vicmot]

Thanks for this rendition Mark..

[@TheDarkWizard666]

Thanks Mark, always good when you upload... something to look forward to indeed!

[@jjeherrera]

It's a very interesting summary of the events that lead to the present state of affairs in Iraq. It would be interesting if you made a video on the Suez crisis, which had great consequences in reshaping geopolitics. It shouldn't be forgotten that it happened in parallel to the Hungarian uprising, and that put Eisenhower in a position in which he couldn't play double-standards. The crisis ended the supremacy of Britain and France as international powers, as they were replaced by the US.

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

I made a video about the Paras during the Suez Crisis.

[@MrTappug]

I think Eisenhower should have stood behind Britain and France. In my opinion he could have supported Britain and France knowing that the Suez Canal had been owned by Britain and France for many years unlike Hungary that the Soviets decided to take in 1945 when they were supposed to liberate Eastern Europe.

[@jjeherrera]

@@MrTappug I agree. He eventually regretted supporting Nasser… Dearly.

[@Mk-qb2ny]

Eisenhower's softness, first towards the Soviets at the end of WWII and later in the Middle east caused exactly what happens when you're soft in world affairs.

[@MrTappug]

@@Mk-qb2ny I think Eisenhower was one of America’s worst presidents by hurting America and the free world by his softness and bad decisions. I think of him at Suez, dien Bien Phu, Sputnik, sitting down Khrushchev in America without preconditions in 1959, the U2 flight and the conference on decolonization at the UN where Khrushchev said he would bury the west. Not to mention his administration planning the bay of pigs. I think Eisenhower was a good general during WW2, but he should have never been president. I think he was also lousy in how treated Nixon who was very loyal to him.

[@DavyBoy007]

Outstanding, informative video.

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

Note to would-be dictators, it doesn't end well and it always ends.

[@ssnabell]

The winners have figured you got to hide behind puppets

[@lauramounir3660]

True statement.

[@markgarrett3647]

The District of Criminals won't end well.

[@Long_Live_Asir]

Tell that to Bashar Al-Assad of Syria. He is still in power thanks to the public Russo-Iranian protection and the secret American-Israeli protection because of his secret assurance about the security and protection of Israel from any direct threat. That’s why Assad wouldn’t dare to threat Israel directly during the current war against Hamas because he wants to stay on power. Some dictators get away with it unfortunately!

[@christopher5846]

Iraq turned from a feudal colony to a regional power with #1 education and healthcare in the region thanks to the republic. Litercy rates went from 20% to +80% in three decades.

[@MarkUslan-e4k]

During WWII, my father-in-law, David T. Kenneth, was assigned to the US Secretary of State and was the flight engineer on the Secretary's aircraft. Where ever Roosevelt was, the Secretary was with him and where ever the Secretary was David Kenneth was there. He met the young Faisal II while in Egypt and taught him a bit about baseball. He never spoke much about the young king but in his diary there was mention of this and a few color slides of them together. After his death in 1999 we donated all of his documents and memorabilia to the Museum of the USAF in Dayton, OH. They are filed under "Kenneth Collection"

[@Mrkhan641]

It seems like all the major regional issues link back to the British.... Palestine/Israel, Hong Kong/Taiwan/China, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Kashmir/India/Pakistan.....Don't you think they are the real culprits?

[@pilates68]

More of this kind of content. The post war is absolutely fascinating!! Losing interest in Himmler and Goring medals and pistols.

[@jorger2020]

Saving the distance, this reminds me of the brutality of the French revolutionaries of 1789 towards the monarchy they dethroned. Violence can NEVER be the solution to a country's problems

[@MustafaAbbasAH]

It was on the same date as the Iraq revolution, July 14

[@mitchmatthews6713]

I always learn something new from a Felton video! Cheers, Mark!

[@petercarter9034]

A very thorough and fact filled video from an area of history I knew little about, thank you for the post

[@j.b.1897]

Fantastic production Mark. Learned so much. Thank you.

[@jrmckim]

Mesopotamia, also known as the "Land Between the Rivers," is renowned as the "Cradle of Civilization." It witnessed the rise of prominent civilizations, including Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria.

[@dragonmaster3207]

My land, the land of our people.

[@pbat118]

Yes and i wonder if gilgamesh was found when they took it this time as all the giant nones an such taken from the museum along with gold an luting...

[@governorofthedeathstar1680]

Thank you, Sir Felton for another great history lesson. Cheers!

[@omarsiddique9211]

The Arabs hated the Ottomans so much yet for all their problems, the Ottomans proved to be a formidable barrier between them and Western influence. Once Ottoman rule dissolved, you see the demise of the Arab world. It makes you think..

[@luqmanosman4508]

The backwardness of the late stage of the ottoman empire was the reason for western dominance of the area.

[@mq5ey]

the computer and language you are using is western influence. if it all depended on the ottomans the middle east would still be banned from using the printing press like they were till 19 century. Ottomans are one of the main reasons why the region is so backwards.

[@grapeshot]

Yes I'm a veteran of that first Gulf War also I was sent over there during Operation Vigilant Warrior.

[@blankpage555]

What was that operation?

[@grapeshot]

In 1994 we detected a large massing of the Iraqi Army on the border with Kuwait so the US sent military units over there to keep an eye out to make sure there wasn't another invasion like the one in 1990.​@@blankpage555

[@tmacfan824]

Ah yes, the first time the USA f***ed up the middle east

[@riheg]

So you are a criminal? Congratulations.

[@CannibaLouiST]

@@riheg criminal for what again?

[@javiervonsydow]

Excellent report and presentation; it is very helpful to understand the history of Iraq and the region in general. Thank you very much for your professionalism and love of History

[@adriennebeecker5000]

Dr. Felton’s research unearths the history of Iraq in a captivating story up to Saddam Hussein’s era. Thank you for providing a history that needs to be heard by the world.

[@walkerpantera]

great presentation Mark, thank you.

[@mrunknown8810]

R.I.P. our beloved king, they opened the gates of hell by this coup

[@robertmashburn8330]

Excellent Video!

[@johnt8441]

As always a better explanation on a complex topic than one gets anywhere else. Thank you, Dr. Felton for a brief but detailed look at a troubled region that needs better than has ever had.

[@chrisfrost8456]

Another Great well informed video thanks Dr Felton

[@MH-ln6pv]

Excellent narration and analysis, as ever. Plus ca change...

[@AnnabelSmyth]

Fascinating! I had no idea of this history. Thank you.

[@GoogleAccount-qe1uy]

Worth mentioning that Faisal I wasn’t entirely a foreigner. As a Hashemite he was a descendant of the Prophet and custodians of Mecca. So there was some claim there as an Islamic ruler. He was also the leader of the ww1 Great Arab revolt (played by Alec Guiness in the film!) aided by Lawrence of Arabia.

[@JokersAce0]

Nah he was definitely a foreigner. You just reinforced why he was a foreigner.

[@GoogleAccount-qe1uy]

​@@JokersAce0 He was an Arab Hashemite. Not from Iraq of course, but there is a connection to the Arab Islamic world and thus Iraq that is worth mentioning (he is of course significantly less foreign than if the british had installed the greek royals as monarchs for example)

[@JokersAce0]

@@GoogleAccount-qe1uy he was a foreign agent and was rightfully overthrown by the actual people of the land.

[@GoogleAccount-qe1uy]

@@JokersAce0 Controversial! I can see a point about strong British influence in Iraq. However the Hashemites generally distrusted the British after Sykes- Picot and McMahon- Hussein but knew they needed their military support. So as British influence waned it is very likely that Iraq would have moved out of the Brit colonial shadow into a full Arab state just as Jordan did. Moreover after the revolution you are just swapping British influence for Soviet

[@GoogleAccount-qe1uy]

@@JokersAce0 As for the popular revolution narrative: watch the video! Him and his family were murdered by an opportunistic military clique, not rightfully overthrown. And sadly as the subsequent violent history of Iraq shows the revolution was not in the best interest of the ‘actual people of the land’

[@shawnegh9833]

What an ugly way to treat the royal family! It seems like Iraq had bocome the subject of a curse since that infamous coup. On the other hand Jordanians remained loyal to their monarchy, and they are doing far better than their neighboring countries. Wish them peace and security.

[@joeyg2860]

Subject Idea : The role of one Melvin Purvis (of John Dillinger fame) during WW2. Including his interactions with Patton and Goring.

[@betsyr4724]

Thank you for making this vid interesting. Learned a lot.

[@ProfessorM-he9rl]

Thank you for this post.

[@sentrygolddenn2552]

There’s an amazing Iraqi series depicting the brutal events.

[@samuelglover7685]

Fascinating, and even by the baseline high standards of this channel presented very nicely. Like any really good history it's given me an itch to read more about the time and place and social dynamics.

[@martinbarry62]

Very informative. Thank you.

[@1972jjb]

Informative piece as ever Mark. If the British were never present in that part of the World, maybe the conditions for Saddam personally to rise to absolute dictator wouldn't have been there (although he still might have tried and still made a high rank). However, the issue with blaming the rise of certain dictators on the colonial presence decades before, is that even without colonials other local dictators would have risen anyway. To rise successfully in that environment, they would have been equally bad and ruthless as Saddam. It is not the management of an outside power, the drawing of certain borders or installation / removal of certain individuals that ultimately sets a regions lot. (Or might have even developed and improved it). We too easily delude ourselves that were it not for the outsider influence decades before, everything would always be noticeably better in a region subsequently. This 'polite' self-denigrating assumption is often naive, especially given the tell tale long time elapsed.. Rather it's the physical geography combined with what goes on between the ears of the majority average natives, that really determines the sort of history that happens in any place. Iraq and the region, being hot, arid, porously bordered and very conservatively religious, was unfortunately always going to be troubled.

[@perhagen1719]

Lovely with a new topic!

[@georgequalls5043]

As a young teen during this event there was a lot I didn’t understand at the time. Thanks for filling in the blanks.

[@ThatSockmonkey]

Why this part of history isn't part of our general education, i will never understand. Thanks Doc. Really interesting.

[@EdMcF1]

Lesson from this: Be careful what you wish for.