Terror Quiz

In 1947, in the Middle East, British security personnel were attacked in a hotel. A major was shot dead as he was breakfasting on his verandeh.

Was that a Hagana operation in Haifa?

Was it an Irgun attack in Jerusalem?

Was it a Lechi assassination attempt in Tel Aviv?

No.

Read:

That was from The Indian Express, Nov 20, 1947 edition, p. 5. (k/t: DA-BR).

The Muslim Brotherhood.

Who knew?

Source


A bit of history:

Mustafa Nahhas...[was appointed Egyptian Prime Minister in February 1942 until October 1944]...Sa‘dist Ahmad Mahir formed a coalition government. On February 24, 1945 he told the Chamber of Deputies that he intended to declare war on Germany so that Egypt could join the United Nations; but while leaving the Chamber he was assassinated by a young Egyptian Fascist. The next leading Sa‘dist al-Nuqrashi succeeded him and declared war on Germany and Japan...In February 1946 the Wafd Party, the Fascists in Young Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, Communists, and student nationalists caused riots and forced Nuqrashi to resign. King Faruq appointed Isma‘il Sidqi again, and he permitted peaceful demonstrations. Egyptians wanted the British military occupation to end...On July 4 the British turned the Cairo Citadel over to Egyptian troops. That month strikes and demonstrations provoked the arrest of Communists, and in the fall they arrested more Communist agitators at several universities. The Labor government agreed that the British would withdraw troops from Cairo, Alexandria, and the Delta in 1947 and the Suez Canal zone in 1949.

Egyptians wanted Sudan united with Egypt; but when British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the Sudanese they would be independent, Nuqrashi resigned. Because of this, the Egyptian legislature refused to ratify the Bevin-Sidqi agreement on the Suez Canal Zone. After the treaty was revised, he returned to office. The issue of removing the British from Egypt was debated in the United Nations Security Council in July and August 1947, and Nuqrashi accused the British of occupying Egypt without its consent and of a hostile policy in Sudan. Egyptians were afraid that Nile water diverted to Sudan would leave them with too little water...In March the British troops evacuated Cairo and established their headquarters at Fayid in the Suez Canal Zone.

...Hasan al-Banna had founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, and they wanted to recreate Egypt as an Islamic state...In 1948 a Brotherhood member murdered Cairo’s chief of police, and 31 members of the Brotherhood were arrested. The Government banned the Brotherhood in December, and a few days later a student member assassinated Prime Minister Nuqrashi. Hasan al-Banna was murdered on February 12, 1949 in Cairo, and the police did little to look for the killers...

Violence? Islamic terror? I guess so.

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