Lion of Jordan (105 page)

14. Hussein walks through frontline trenches during his visit to the Jordan–Israel frontier, 29 May 1967, accompanied by his officers

15. Hussein with his cousin, Sharif Zaid bin Shaker (
left
), his uncle, Sharif Nasser bin Jamil, and brother Muhammad in the Jordan Valley on the eve of the June 1967 war

16. Hussein announcing the loss of the West Bank at a press conference, Amman, 8 June 1967

17. Hussein meets Wasfi al-Tall during Black September 1970

18. Arab heads of state meet at the Nile Hilton in Cairo (
left to right
): Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, PLO chief Yasser Arafat, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Hussein, 27 September 1970

19. Outgoing Foreign Minister Yigal Allon (
left
) with his successor Moshe Dayan. On the extreme right, Efraim Halevy. Jerusalem, 1977

20. Hussein in a secret meeting with Dr Yaacov Herzog,
c
. 1968/9

21. Golda Meir, 1970

22. Hussein confers with President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office of the White House, March 1974

23. Zaid al-Rifa'i, as Jordanian ambassador to Great Britain, 1970

24. Hussein with his third wife, Queen Alia, pictured a few months before the helicopter crash that killed her, with their children Ali and Haya and their adopted child, Abir (
left
) 1976

25. Hussein announces his engagement to Lisa Halaby, May 1978