Word: moustafa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by a self-styled "Commander of the Faithful" named Shukri Ahmed Moustafa, the society consists of perhaps 500 youths. Three years ago, in a clumsy attempt to overthrow Sadat's "atheistic" regime, Moustafa's followers attacked the Egyptian Technical Military Academy at Heliopolis and provoked a battle with guards in which eleven people died and 27 were wounded. A year later townsmen of the Nile Valley village of Minya complained that the group was brainwashing their daughters and carrying them off as concubines. One young girl was even persuaded by the group to commit suicide...
...installment plan with Israel. "Syria has realized an important political achievement for the Palestinian cause," proclaimed the Damascus newspaper Al Thawra. "The Security Council's resolution was a defeat for the step-by-step diplomacy and the policy of bilateral and partial solutions." Syrian Defense Minister Major-General Moustafa Tlas also gratuitously sneered at the Egyptian-Israeli accord on the Sinai. "The Egyptian administration regained a few kilometers of land," he said, "where troops armed with rifles only can enter. But the Egyptian army cannot take up positions in the strategic Sinai passes because American spies and experts will...