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Offer of Refuge. The accused ringleader of the plot, former Vice President and commander of the armed forces, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, had already paid his debt: shortly after his arrest last fall, Radio Cairo announced that he had poisoned himself, a report received with great skepticism. The twelve in court last week were accused of being Amer's main conspirators. Among them: Shams Badran, Minister of War during the conflict with Israel; Abbas Radwan, former Minister of the Interior; Salah Nasr, former chief of Nasser's intelligence service; and Galal Haridi, who had commanded Nasser...
...alleged plotting began after Nasser, casting around for a scapegoat for his humiliating defeat, put the blame on his army and sacked 800 officers, including Amer. Holing up in his villa in the fashionable Cairo suburb of Giza, said the prosecution, Amer offered refuge to other similarly displaced officers, and more than 50 moved in. With them they brought seven truckloads of grenades, pistols, machine guns and ammunition. At one point, when government security forces tried to intercept Haridi as he went out for cigarettes, guards at the windows and doors opened up with guns, wounding two soldiers...
With his key lieutenants, the prosecutor claimed, Amer began mailing out anti-Nasser pamphlets and plotting his next move. Among several plans discussed was one wild scheme for jumping Nasser outside his home, popping him into a sack and driving off with him. The final plan, as described by the prosecutor, called for Amer and his men to seize command of the armed forces, arrest a number of top officials, including all cabinet members, and take control of the government. For the necessary payoffs, the government claims that Nasr gave $140,000 to Radwan...
Nasser got wind of the plot, however, and ordered Amer and his fellow officers arrested. When the army men prepared to fight rather than go peacefully, Radwan-up to then still unidentified as a conspirator-visited the villa and persuaded them to give up. Though last week's first twelve defendants pleaded not guilty, the trial's final verdict, which may not come for weeks, is practically a foregone conclusion. Two of the three judges are loyal Nasser generals; the third-appointed court chairman-is one of Nasser's vice presidents, Hussein el Shafei...