Nasser cracks down on the Muslim Brotherhood…
November 1954 CE
Nasser cracks down on the Muslim Brotherhood when his would-be killer confesses that the assignment had been give to him by this extremist Arab religious organization, which had retreated underground with the advent of the revolutionary regime in Egypt in 1952.
The movement is forcibly suppressed, six of its leaders are tried and executed for treason, and many others are imprisoned.