Shamseddin Badran
Schamseddin Badran ( Arabic شمس بدران, * 1929 ) is a former Egyptian politician .
Life
Badran met his wife at the American University of Cairo and was head of the Egyptian General Staff before becoming Minister of Defense to Gamal Abdel Nasser in the fall of 1966 .
Badran was in Moscow from May 25-28, 1967 . Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin assured Nasser in a letter delivered by Badran that the Soviet Union would stand on the side of the United Arab Republic in a conflict in Palestine and would not allow any state to intervene. He was blamed for the Egyptian defeat in the Six Day War .
On January 22, 1968, a trial began in Cairo before a revolutionary tribunal for high treason against Badran and conspirators. Badran was charged with high treason with 53 other military personnel, including the head of the Jihaz al-Muchabarat al-Amma Salah Nasr , the former major general Othaman Nasr and the former interior minister Abbas Radwan and sentenced to life imprisonment . In 1976, Anwar as-Sadat pardoned 30 fellow prisoners, including Salah Nasr and Badran. Badran migrated to London .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Europa-Archiv , Volume 22, Part 2, German Society for Foreign Policy. Research Institute, German Society for Foreign Policy, Verlag für Internationale Politik, 1967, p. 135.
- ↑ Middle East / Crisis: Hot Summer . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1967 ( online ).
- ^ The Daily Telegraph , Oct 26, 2001, telegraph.co.uk
- ^ Time , Feb. 02, 1968, Egypt: Day in Court
- ↑ Panayiotis J. Vatikiotis: Nasser and his generation , p. 163
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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Kamal Hasan Ali Abdel Wahab al-Bishri |
Egyptian Defense Minister October 1966 to June 9, 1967 |
July 21, 1967: Amin Howeidi |
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| SURNAME | Badran, Shamseddin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Badran, Shams al-Din |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1929 |