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Shams Al Din Badran ( ar, شمس الدين بدران; 19 April 1929 – 28 November 2020) was an Egyptian government official. He served as
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of Egypt during Gamal Abdel Nasser's era and the unsuccessful
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of 1967. He was removed from his post during the war and later imprisoned. After his release he married a British woman and lived in "self-imposed exile" in the United Kingdom.


Early life and education

Badran was born on 19 April 1929. He attended a military academy and graduated in 1948. He participated in the 1947–1949 Palestine war and earned the Gold Medal of Merit from
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as he fought at Al-Faluja. He was later sent on a military scholarship to France.


Career

Badran was the head of Egypt's military security services in the mid-1960s. He also served as the office manager of Field Marshal Abdul Hakim Amer under Gamal Abdel Nasser's presidency. Badran was one of the top aides of Amer.
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accused him and Amer of responsibility for the torture of Brotherhood leaders who had been arrested due to their alleged plans to assassinate Nasser in 1965. Badran was appointed
minister of defence A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in som ...
in Fall 1966, a few months before the
Six-Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...
in June 1967, replacing Abdel Wahab Al Bishri in the post. Amer had supported Badran's appointment. Badran was also named as the chief of Nasser's cabinet the same year. On 25 May 1967, Badran visited Moscow and met senior Soviet officials, including then Prime Minister
Alexei Kosygin Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin ( rus, Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ kɐˈsɨɡʲɪn; – 18 December 1980) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premi ...
, to secure their support regarding a perceived Israeli threat. Badran resigned from office during the Six-Day War, and was replaced by Amin Howeidi as defence minister. Following the defeat of the Egypt in the Six-Day War Badran was considered as a successor to the President Gamal Abdel Nasser.


Conviction

Badran along with other senior officials, including Amer, was detained on 25 August 1967 on charges of plotting against Nasser. However, they were tried for their roles during the six day war in 1967, including for Badran charges of torturing members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Badran appeared in court in two separate trials. He and
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, former chief of intelligence and also part of Amer's faction, were convicted and sentenced to hard labour due to their roles in the defeat. Following his release from prison by president
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on 23 May 1974, Badran left Egypt and went to live in
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. Badran published part of his memoirs in the Kuwaiti newspaper '' Al-Siyasa'' in 2014.


Personal life

Badran married his first wife, Muna Rushdie, on 7 June 1962. The couple had one daughter named Hiba; they divorced in January 1989 by a court decision, as he had been absent for three years. Rushdie worked at
The American University in Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC; ar, الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة, Al-Jāmi‘a al-’Amrīkiyya bi-l-Qāhira) is a private research university in Cairo, Egypt. The university offers American-style learning programs ...
. In the 1970s he married a British woman with whom he had three children. Badran lived with his family in "self-imposed exile" in the United Kingdom, though one of his children moved to Saudi Arabia and another to the United States. On 28 November 2020, Badran died in the
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; however, he had asked to be buried in Egypt.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Badran, Shams 20th-century Egyptian politicians 1929 births 2020 deaths Defence Ministers of Egypt Egyptian expatriates in the United Kingdom Egyptian military leaders Free Officers Movement (Egypt) People from Giza Egyptian politicians convicted of crimes Egyptian prisoners and detainees