Word: hamid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month another mutineer, Lieut. Colonel AH Hamid, decided that destiny awaited him, and drove with his band into the Omdurman infantry barracks crying: "Here is the great officer Ali Hamid." This time President Abboud's patience was at an end. Last week Ali Hamid and four of his accomplices were hanged at Khartoum prison-the first casualties, after one year and 15 days, of the Middle East's gentlest revolution...
Almost from the start, the Syrians had had second thoughts about their impulsive merger. The job of whipping Syria into line was given to Interior Minister Abdel Hamid Serraj a ruthless local strongman who had wholeheartedly committed himself to Nasser. Serraj clapped hundreds of Communists into jail, tortured "recantations" out of hundreds more. He helped to reduce the once-powerful Baath Party to impotence,* slashed the number of Damascus dailies from 24 to a docile seven. But for all his secret agents, Serraj was still unable to dissuade his own country from its conviction that the union meant only economic...
...attack on Kassem ("I am against all this terror and killing"), but many guessed that he was just making a show of propriety. The United Arab Republic's campaign to topple Kassem has reached a screaming crescendo; fortnight ago Syria's tough Interior Minister, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, presided at a clandestine meeting in the Syrian town of El Haseke with anti-Kassem Iraqi army officers to discuss plans for Iraq's leadership should Kassem be overthrown. When the meeting was over, Serraj flew off to Cairo immediately to report to Nasser...
...trial Brigadier Ahmed Abdulla Hamid, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, who had been chosen by Shennan and Moheiddin to head the new Supreme Council, was placed under house arrest. Testimony showed that among those slated for the revamped council (although neither knew of the plan) were one of the members of the court-martial itself and the army's chief investigator, who had prepared the case against Shennan and Moheiddin. Shennan haughtily denied that he would have confided in a 26-year-old captain ("He was not of my age, my rank, my standing"), and accused former top officials...
...after Nasser's speech, Damascus' Communist newspaper Al Noor went out of business. Syrian Communist Boss Khaled Bakdash, the leading Communist in the Arab world, went underground. Nasser's Syrian proconsul, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, was more emphatic than Nasser. "The Communist Party has shown its real self," he said. "Its attitude is treason to the Arab cause and a dagger's stab directed by people who do not represent the real face of the Syrian region...