Saad El Shazly (Arabic:سعد الشاذلي) was born in the city of Basyoun in the Al Gharbiya Governorate. An Egyptian military personality, he was Egypt's chief of staff during the October War. Following his public criticism of the Camp David Accords, he was dismissed from his post as Ambassador to Portugal and sent into exile in Algeria.
El Shazly founded the paratroopers in Egypt in 1954 and was commander of the first paratrooper battalion in the Egy...
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Saad El Shazly (Arabic:سعد الشاذلي) was born in the city of Basyoun in the Al Gharbiya Governorate. An Egyptian military personality, he was Egypt's chief of staff during the October War. Following his public criticism of the Camp David Accords, he was dismissed from his post as Ambassador to Portugal and sent into exile in Algeria.
El Shazly founded the paratroopers in Egypt in 1954 and was commander of the first paratrooper battalion in the Egyptian army. In 1960 he headed the first United Arab Forces in the Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) as part of the United Nations forces. He was Defense Attaché in London 1961-1963; Commander of Special Forces 1967-1969; Commander of the Red Sea District 1970-1971; and on May 16, 1971 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, a post he held until December 13, 1973.
Shazly first gained his reputation in 1941. British forces together with Egyptian forces were facing the Germans in the western desert. When the British...
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