(newspaper unidentified) · 10 July 1972

CP-1972-039

Egyptian Forces Termed Near Point Of 'Undeclared Rebellion'

By United Press International

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The respected weekly An Nahar Arab Report said Sunday the Egyptian armed forces are on the point of open rebellion and President Anwar Sadat's efforts to reassert his authority seems doomed to failure.

The weekly, which is published in Beirut and is reported to have reliable sources in the various Arab capitals, gave no specific reason for the unrest but said it “has has reached the point of undeclared rebellion,” particularly in the air force.

Unofficial reports from Cairo said the armed forces were becoming increasingly disenchanted with government policy after five years of a no-war, no-peace situation. The semiofficial Egyptian Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported the arrival in Cairo Sunday of Syrian President Hafez Assad from Moscow with a Soviet pledge to strengthen his armed forces.

Sadat was at the airport to greet Assad, who, official sources said, would brief the Egyptian leader on details of his four days of talks with the Kremlin leadership. Funeral services were scheduled to be held Monday in Beirut for Gassan Kanafani, 36, a radical Palestinian leader who was killed Saturday when a bomb exploded in his car.

A 14-year-old niece also died in what Arabs denounced as an “assassination.” Kanafani was official spokesman for the extremist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) guerrilla organization which claimed “complete responsibility” for the Japanese terrorist attack on Israel's Lod International Airport on May 30.

The trial of Kozo Okamolo, sole survivor of the three-man Japanese death squad that killed 26 persons and wounded scores more, is scheduled to begin in Israel on Monday. He faces four charges, three of which are punishable by death.

The English-language newspaper Daily Star of Beirut said “there appears to be enough ground to justify the charge made by the Popular Front...that Israel and the Zionists are behind the assassination...”

Most Beirut newspapers carried reports from the Palestine News Agency that a card bearing the inscription “with the compliments of the Embassy of Israel, Copenhagen” was found near the site of the explosion.

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