Four Palestine Arab extremist leaders–Jamal Husseini, Dawood Husseini, Kemal Osman Haddad and Amin Buweika–arrived here yesterday afternoon by military plane from Rhodesia, where they were detained during the war.
An application for their release was granted by the High Court in Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, on Nov. 29, the attorney general stating that information had been received that detention was no longer necessary.
Jamal Husseini, who was one of the instigators of the anti-Jewish outbreaks in Palestine, was arrested in 1941 and sent to Southern Rhodesia in 1942. He was elected president of the Palestine Arab Party in 1943. He was a member of the Palestine Arab delegations to London in 1936 and 1939, and opened the Arab case before the British Royal Commission on Palestine in 1937.
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