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May 12th, 1967. Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser is en route to a massive propaganda rally in downtown Cairo. Neither he nor his cabinet ministers, nor the massive police detail escorting him to the rally, are aware that a middle-aged laborer driven mad by grief and bitterness over the loss of his two sons during the Suez crisis eleven years earlier is waiting in the crowd with a loaded revolver to shoot the Egyptian president. As Nasser reaches the midway point of his trip, the laborer pulls out his gun and squeezes off three shots, two of which hit Nasser smack in the side of the head; Nasser is immediately rushed to a Cairo hospital only to succumb to his wounds barely six hours later, by which time his assassin is in police custody and Egypt is in a state of shock and panic.

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