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Mohammed Saad Eddin Mamoun, usually known in English as Saad Mamoun (14 May 1922 – 28 October 2000), was an Egyptian

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and was the commander of the

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ian Second Army during the

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. He was commissioned in an infantry regiment in 1943 after graduating from the

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. He was wounded in action during the 1956 war as the commander of an

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. Along with

Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy Mohamed Abdel Ghani el-Gamasy ( ar, محمد عبد الغني الجمسي, 9 September 1921 – 7 June 2003) was an Egyptian Field Marshal (Mushir) and the Commander in Chief of The Armed Forces. He has been called "one of the architects of the ...

Hosni Mubarak Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in t ...

Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar General Dr. Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar (13 July 1922 – 24 March 2011) was a highly decorated Egyptian military commander. He was commissioned from the Military College in June 1942 in an Artillery regiment of the Egyptian Army. He was aide de c ...

and

Kamal Hassan Ali General Kamal Hassan Ali (; 18 September 1921 – 27 March 1993) was an Egyptian politician and military hero. Biography Aly was born in Cairo on 18 September 1921. He attended medical school, but did not finish it and joined military academy ...

, he was one of the heavyweight and close members of

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's inner circle. During the 1977 Egyptian bread riots, as commander of the Central Military Region, he is known to have refused to use deadly force against protestors in Cairo and to convince

to accede to some of the popular demands such as continuation of food and

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. After he retired from the Egyptian Army, he served as

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until 1983.

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* http://www.defencejournal.com/2002/nov/4th-round.htm Egyptian generals Egyptian people of the Yom Kippur War 1922 births 2000 deaths {{Egypt-mil-bio-stub