Iran's Nuclear Weapon Program*Queen Noor of Jordan born 23 August 1951)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Noor_of_Jordan Queen Noor of Jordan ( born Lisa Najeeb Halaby on 23 August 1951) is an American woman who is the widow of King Hussein of Jordan. She is also known as Noor Al-Hussein. As of 2011, she is president of the United World Colleges movement and an advocate of the anti-nuclear weapons proliferation campaign Global Zero. She is the daughter of Najeeb Halaby and Doris Carlquist (Swedish descent). Her father was an aviator, airline executive, and government official. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Truman administration, before being appointed by John F. Kennedy to head the Federal Aviation Administration. Najeeb Halaby also had a private-sector career, serving as CEO of Pan American World Airways from 1969 to 1972. After she graduated, Lisa Halaby moved to Australia, where she worked for a firm that specialized in planning new towns. She became increasingly interested in the Middle East and immediately accepted a job offer from a British architectural firm that had been employed to redesign Tehran, Iran. In 1976 she moved back to the United States. However, she accepted a job offer from Managing Director of Arab Air Services, which was founded by her father, who was commissioned by the Jordanian government to redesign their airlines. She became Director of Facilities Planning and Design of the airline he founded. In 1977, she was working for Royal Jordanian Airlines, in which capacity she attended various high-profile social events as the Director of Facilities Planning and Design. This is where she met Hussein of Jordan for the first time on the development of the Queen Alia International Airport. The airport was named after Queen Alia, Hussein's third wife, who died in a helicopter crash the same year. Halaby and the king became friends while he was still mourning the death of his wife. Halaby and King Hussein wed on 15 June 1978 in Amman, becoming his fourth wife and Queen of Jordan. Upon her marriage she accepted her husband's Sunni Islamic religion and the royal name Noor Al-Hussein ("Light of Hussein"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_of_Jordan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alia_al-Hussein Alia Baha ud-din Toukan (25 December 1948 – 9 February 1977) Aged 28 , was the Queen consort of Jordan and the third wife of King Hussein of Jordan from her marriage in 1972 until her death in a helicopter crash in 1977. The international airport in Amman is named after her. A daughter of Sayyid Baha ud-din Toukan, former Jordanian ambassador to the Court of St James's (United Kingdom), Italy, Turkey and Egypt, by his wife, Hanan Hashim. Alia was born in Cairo, Egypt in December 1948. Her father was a Palestinian from Nablus, who had settled in Salt, near Amman.He served King Abdullah I, helped write the Jordanian Constitution, and was Jordan's first Ambassador to the United Nations. Alia married the King in a private ceremony on 24 December 1972, and was titled Queen Alia al Hussein. They had two children: Princess Haya (born 3 May 1974). Prince Ali (born 23 December 1975). They also adopted Abir, a 5-year-old Palestinian girl whose mother had been killed by a plane crash at a refugee camp near the Amman airport. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimah-Died Aged 28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abir_Muhaisen http://cdn.theroyalforums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=37301&stc;=1&d;=1075980233 Hussein bin Talal ( 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from the abdication of his father, King Talal, in 1952, until his death. Hussein's rule extended through the Cold War and four decades of Arab–Israeli conflict. He recognized Israel in 1994, becoming the second Arab head of state to do so (after Anwar Sadat in 1978/1979). Hussein claimed to be a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his belonging to the ancient Hashemite family. http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/king-hussein-of-jordan-with-his-fourth-wife-queen-noor-on-june-01-picture-id102630322 http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/160710365-the-king-hussein-of-jordan-marries-the-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c;=IWSAsset&k;=2&d;=GkZZ8bf5zL1ZiijUmxa7QU3e%2Ft0LjYnQNnNdexJxLuz9V25A%2F4l6ECnrqO2IDNCv3IWRwXbstzSz5j1ik6LbLw%3D%3D https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/61/0f/78/610f782d3cd4b3739bdfcd42999807f6.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashim_bin_Hussein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashem_bin_Abdullah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein,_Crown_Prince_of_Jordan http://www.jordanembassyus.org/royal-family/his-royal-highness-crown-prince-al-hussein-bin-abdullah-ii http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/2012/08/20/spotted-jordanian-queen-rania-on-campus-to-meet-with-president-degioia/ http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8426/7827296542_7dd151f132.jpg http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3m8h4v_news-x-hijacking-of-indian-airlines-plane-ic-814-ic-814-the-avoidable-tragedy_news