ECS quotes INFOsophia No.15/ 1991 for 4:05 AM BGT from an Arabic
B.C. seen by Barbault. In July 1998, LMR contacted Jean-Christophe
Vitu to please ask Andre Barbault for confirmation and Barbault
answered that his niece, Martine, had seen a document in Arabic that
she was told was Hussein's B.C., but inasmuch as she did not read
Arabic, it meant nothing to her. Barbault writes that he is "as
skeptical as you."
Pandit Ashutosh Ojha writes in AFA Bulletin 5/31/1991,
"Hussein was born on the night of April 27 or the morning of
April 28; the reported time is 3:35 AM Baghdad time (-3 hrs)."
Bill Meridian called from Abu Dhabi, United Arabian Emirates on
11/09/1991, quotes a Lebanese astrologer who said that Hussein's
mother went into labor on the night of April 27 and delivered on the
early 28th; rectified to 00:07 AM BGT.
Helen Ederer quotes Herbert Yohag for 7:12 PM.
T. Pat Davis spec 9:15 PM GMT.
Julian Cohen talked to a local University professor who had been
formerly in the mid-east, who wrote to his contacts and came up with
8:55 AM: Julian does not vouch for authenticity.
Caroline Gerard writes from Scotland that Nick Campion has data
from Eric Mores for February 16, 1937, 8:55 AM.
Frances McEvoy has a chart from a correspondent in France that
gives 10:30 AM.
Grazia Bordoni writes in March 1998, "I read in the
newspaper that he was born in a Bedouin tribe where no one registers
birthdates; not only the time, but the date is also unsure."
Transit 7/1998 gave February 17, 1937 for Hussein, but also noted
that Iraq had celebrated his 61st birthday on April 28.
