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Last month, for instance, Cairo's al Akhbar, the country's most widely read daily, carried an article by aging General Mohammed Naguib, a leader of the 1952 coup that ousted King Farouk, charging that he himself was tortured by sadistic guards during Nasser's rule...
Chorus of Abuse. Some of the recent attacks on Nasser also challenge his revolutionary credentials. In an al Akhbar article, former Socialist Leader Ahmed Hussein charges that on the night of the anti-Farouk coup, Nasser, then a lieutenant colonel, donned civilian clothes and was sitting in his auto ready to escape if the revolt failed. Only when success seemed assured did he join his fellow officers...
...prodded him in the side with a sharpened stick. Then, as the prince straightened his body in response, the executioner's gold-handled sword flashed, and the condemned man's head rolled from his shoulders. The crowd, silent until that moment, broke into shouts of "Allahu akhbar [God is great]." For 15 minutes the prince's head was displayed on the tip of a spike for the crowd's inspection; eventually an ambulance collected it and the body for burial in an unmarked grave...
...among men." At the same time, he said, Egypt had to reiterate "its determination to perform the sacred duty of liberating its land and all Arab lands still under occupation in the Golan Heights, Sinai and Palestine, and recovering usurped Arab rights." Canal workers broke into shouts of "Allahu akhbar"(God is great...
...Israel now lives in a state of almost complete siege, surrounded by Arab military and economic power and world support for Arab rights." That kind of remark, which appeared in an editorial in Cairo's daily al Akhbar, could easily have been dismissed as idle rhetoric had it preceded an Arab summit meeting in the past. But last week as 19 Arab leaders arrived in Rabat, Morocco, for a three-day conference, the mood was genuinely one of new-found strength and confidence...