Word: faluja
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Left Cairo staff college to fight in 1948 Palestine war. Wounded in the shoulder, he held out in "Faluja pocket" till Cairo stopped fighting. Bitterly convinced that the real enemy was the rotten regime back home, he organized his first Free Officers' secret meeting at Faluja...
...power in the Moslem world, had come sweeping across the Sinai Peninsula to throttle the infant Israel at its U.N. birth. But decades of corruption in palace and government paid off disastrously in lack of ammunition, inferior arms and cowardly officering. Captain Nasser's unit was surrounded at Faluja, a few miles from Gaza. He saw his commanding officer wringing his hands and crying: "The soldiers are dying! The soldiers are dying...