Word: abbassia
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...textile workers near Alexandria, set up a special military court staffed with twelve prosecutors who worked all night taking evidence against 30 instigators and ringleaders. "The sentences,'' said General Naguib, "will be executed immediately and without mercy." Later, emerging from the headquarters mosque at Abbassia, Naguib faced his cheering soldiers and warned them: there are "still in the country elements who are actively working to frustrate our movement. We'll crush them-we'll shoot them if necessary...
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