Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo court last week found 16 leaders of the Moslem Brotherhood guilty as charged of plotting the murder of Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser (TIME, Dec. 6), sentenced seven to death, seven to life imprisonment, two to 15 years at hard labor. The death sentence of Brotherhood Leader Hassan el Hodeiby was commuted to life imprisonment...
...fanatic Moslem Brotherhood used to be the terror of Egypt; it murdered two Premiers and a police chief, and created shivers of concern among British commanders in the Canal Zone. But last week in a small, second-floor Cairo courtroom, ordinary Egyptians openly laughed at the Brotherhood as, one by one, its high dignitaries, shorn of their imposing beards, shambled forward to stammer confessions and recriminations like so many cringing schoolboys. The occasion: the trial of the Brotherhood leaders accused of attempting to assassinate Premier
...invited the scared Brothers, self-professed keepers of the Moslem tradition, to explain precisely certain passages of the Koran. When they faltered, he sneered: "You call yourselves soldiers of God!" Under his searing tongue, the accused abjectly passed the buck to one another. Mahmoud Abdul Latif, the little tinsmith who fired eight wild shots at Nasser in Alexandria a month ago, burst into tears and sobbed that he was but a dupe led on by clever masters. Supreme Guide Hodeiby protested violently: "I stayed against my will and tried to resign, but the Brotherhood refused." At first, Terrorist Chief Youssef...
...will come more than $1,500 a month for Yasmin's support until she comes into her inheritance. In return for his largesse, Aly will get Yasmin for six weeks a year at first, longer later, and have the right to see that she grows up a good Moslem. As Rita put her name to the custody agreement, reported a lawyer later, "a smile of satisfaction crossed her face...
...last February got himself made Premier and let Naguib stay on in a presidential figurehead job only because of Naguib's immense popularity in the streets. Since then, Nasser has felt increasingly confident of surviving without Naguib's prestige. Last week Nasser saw his chance, when a Moslem Brotherhood leader testified that Naguib had prior knowledge of a recent plot to kill Nasser...