The Free man "Part 2"

Now this is the second part about the Free man General Mohamed Naguib, it is not longer like the first part by the way

President Naguib was an exile inside in his own country; he even heard his own death news in the international radio stations based on a reliable source in Cairo in 1966, his sons and wife paid the price, the price of reminding the people with Naguib

His wife died and Nasser did not let him to attend his funeral, do you know that??

Do you know how tough it is to see your sons get killed and humiliated because of you!!??

In 1968 his second son Ali was killed in Germany, he was the head of the Arab students union and activist for the Arab causes, in one night he was found killed after being beaten to death, his body came to Cairo and buried yet his own father did not say good bye to him or even they let just visit at night his son tomb so he can read the Fatah on his soul ,Ali was used to be called {the Cowboy} by his father “The General blamed Nasser and accused his intelligence to be behind the case”

Next year news came to the General in his home exile; his elder son Farouk entered the jail along with other political prisoners, the charge of insulting the regime!! Farouk stayed in jail 5 months and half, when he was released he was sick; he began to suffer from heart diseases and after awhile his heart stopped beating

His youngest son Youssef tried to stay away from the politics, yet with no luck because the curse followed him, he was graduated from the wireless institute and worked in one of the national companies, but he did not stay long in his job because one of the relatives of “Shams Badran” made a fight with him, a presidential decree with an order to fire Youssef, who did not find any job except working ……….as a Taxi driver!!

Can you imagine a president’s son working on a Taxi driver?? and he did not even own the car , except when he had a chance to be a driver in the “Arab contractors” company ,then he bought his own car where he worked in the morning as a company driver and noon as a cab driver !!

I don’t need to tell you that the other Egyptian presidents’ sons and daughters are all wealthy, very wealthy, high classy people whose children and grand children are graduated from American University

You will be surprised more if I told you that President Mohamed Naguib sent two letters for Nasser and his playboy Amar in 1956 asking them to let him go and fight the British in the Canal, he would go with a fake name under 24/7 surveillance for he wanted to die in honor in the field and if he was alive after the war, he would go immediately again to his exile prison

These letters which received no respond was sent on the 5^th of November except insults and attacks from the guards of prison exile villa!! You can find a copy from the letters sent to those jerks and if you can read Arabic, please read it, well it made me want to cry because I felt the man who wrote it was so great and honorable

The General used to raise cats and dogs to find them more faithful than humans, in deed they are, the wild beasts in the forests do not betray each other, ironically when we like to call someone a bad name we call him or her an animal!!

President Naguib isolation or exile ended in the time of President Anwar El-Sadaat in year 1972, after all those years he was set free, already President Sadaat knew Naguib before the revolution when Sadaat was arresting for spying for the Germans in WWII “oh yes President Sadaat was a Nazi spy”

President Mohamed Naguib died in year 1984 and he had a presidential military funeral attended by President Mubarak, and as a modest respect to him a Metro station was named after him

his memories were published after his death in the same year in Cairo under the name “I was president of Egypt”, the book was huge success that the Printing house “The Egyptian Modern House” re-printed from the book 8 editions the last one in year 2003 , the book was like a shock , already it is very sad , when you read it you feel that you are reading for a man with a high dignity ,a politician with a vision , do not be surprised because in his exile President Naguib read books in all kind of things you can imagine , he even learnt languages ,several languages including Hebrew in which he requested to be taught in the Egyptian Universities , already President Naguib was the one who made it to be taught in the war school . The General used to speak English, French and Italian not to mention he had a PHD in the Political Economics, for sure he is a very from rare kind of army officers, he was really an example for a civilian in a suite.

Ironically when I see it and think about it, I believe that President Mohamed Naguib was the first Ex-President of Egypt, a very strange title I am not used to write it down because we only have late presidents and I guess it is an honor for him

The General did not care only for Egypt but also cared for Sudan not because his roots in his mother side, but for a political strategic point, he considered Sudan very important to Egypt , in a way that reminds me with the vision of Mohamed Ali Pasha ,the Unity of the valley of the Nile both men were correct , this is the southern gate of Egypt , you only have to read about what is going on in the Sudan and now and you will know that it is a matter of time when you find an international force on your southern borders

President Naguib in the introduction of the book said that he never imagined that he was going to live and write this introduction, and that this book would live longer than he lived and would say more that he said, already the man did not say anything

I tell you something this man ,Mohamed Naguib ,lived longer than most of the RCC members , in fact as an Egyptian I tell you that God gave him the long life to see the divine revenge in all of those who humiliated him whether Nasser “I do not give a damn for the Nasserites” ,Amar , Mohi El-Din and the Salam Brothers, in fact I read that he went to visit Gamal Salam who was dying from a certain disease , Salam told him to forgive him for what they had done to him ,they were led by the devil , I don’t know if he meant by the devil Nasser or their own greed or what !!??

I got a strange in my mind why the people suddenly forgot this man; it is not a ruler’s decision, more about how he was suddenly forgotten,people do not fall from the public memory like this , I mean this man had a huge popularity in the Egyptian street more can you imagine in time with no spread of media ,in time there was no socialist union nor NDP , I believe the Egyptian people also share part of the guilt , for being silence , for being ready to forget those men who gave themselves in order to let them have a better future

President Naguib wrote his memories in a hope that the future generations would re-write the right history of Egypt, unfortunately we are still worshiping the same false idols, last month I was attacked and still am under attack because I am calling for an official statement from the intelligence regarding Ashraf Marwan and some come and tell me how can I suspect in Gamal Abd El-Nasser’s son in law cursing me!!

If we really love our country we must re-write the history correctly with no bias, the only bias we must have is to the country

May Allah bless the soul of Mohamed Naguib and reward for his patience in the test he lived from hardness, still the believer test is always the hardest

For Further reading about the late president, I recommend his own memories “I was a president of Egypt”, unfortunately I can not find it in the website of the Egyptian Modern house now still there is another book published by the same publishing house that is “I was witness of Mohamed Naguib’s era” by Ambassador Ryad Sami who was his secretary and also it is a shocking book, unfortunately all these books are in Arabic ,you can contact the publishing house through the phone or the email

Again I searched Amazon only books with a chapter about him are available and this is not fair

Here are some extra photos I scanned from his book including one in his last days , very rare

  

And as a little present from the British Pathe Archive I found this Italian Newsreel about the General and his sons , you can download it here from my box 2638_26.wmv

you can see the general speaks Italian

again here are my resources this time :

1. I was a president of Egypt by Mohamed Naguib ,published in September 1984

2. A Witness on President Naguib’s era by Ambassador Ryad Sami

and I hope that from those two posts you will know there were real Egyptian generals who wanted democracy ,also I am happy other people remembered him this year

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