Hussein Sirri Amer was a senior
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...
ian general during the reign of
King Farouk
Farouk I (; ar, فاروق الأول ''Fārūq al-Awwal''; 11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965) was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1 ...
, to whom he was notably loyal. He served as the Commander of the Frontier Corps. During the
1948 Arab-Israeli War he was believed by members of the officer corps of being complicit in the distribution of faulty arms to Egyptian troops.
[Jabber, p. 130.] When General
Muhammad Naguib
Mohamed Bey Naguib Youssef Qutb El-Qashlan ( ar, الرئيس اللواء محمد بك نجيب يوسف قطب القشلان, ; 19 February 1901 – 28 August 1984), also known as Mohamed Naguib, was an Egyptian revolutionary, and, along ...
was set to be appointed War Minister by Prime Minister
Hussein Sirri Pasha and had the support of the officer corps, King Farouk intervened to have Amer appointed instead. Amer's holding of the post was meant to keep potential disloyalty within the armed forces in check.
[Nutting, 1972, p. 34.] An assassination attempt against Amer by members of the
Free Officers, including future president
Gamal Abdel Nasser, took place in January 1952, but failed. Following the
Egyptian Revolution of 1952, Amer was tried for his role in the arms scandal of the 1948 war.
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