26 Facts About Saad el-Shazly

Saad el-Shazly was Egypt's chief of staff during the Yom Kippur War.

Saad el-Shazly is credited with the equipping and preparation of the Egyptian Armed Forces in the years prior to the successful capture of the Israeli Bar-Lev line at the start of the Yom Kippur War.

Saad el-Shazly was dismissed from his post on 13 December 1973.

Saad el-Shazly was born in the village of Shabratna, Basyoun Center, in Gharbia Governorate, in the Nile Delta, on 1 April 1922, in an upper-middle class family.

Saad el-Shazly's father was a notary, and his family owned acres.

Saad el-Shazly's father is Hajj al-Husseini al-Shazly, and his mother, Mrs Tafidah al-Jawhari, is the second wife of his father.

Saad el-Shazly was named after the 17th Prime Minister of Egypt, Saad Zaghloul.

Saad el-Shazly's father was one of the owners of agricultural lands who married twice and had nine children with first wife: Muhammad, Hamid, Abdel-Hakim, Al-Hussaini, Abdel-Salam, Nadhima, Farida, Bassima and Morsyah.

Saad el-Shazly then became the commander of the 75th Parachute Battalion during the Triple Aggression of 1956.

Saad el-Shazly took command of the Parachute Force during the period from 1954 to 1959.

Saad el-Shazly suggested that the parachute corps parade walk by a quick step in front of the podium, and by that, he was the first to suggest walking in a quick step in the special military parades for the paratroopers, which became associated with the thunderbolt and paratroop forces and what distinguished them from other forces and were subsequently transferred by the Arab countries.

Saad el-Shazly secured the smuggling of Lumumba's sons to Egypt before the Egyptian battalion withdrew.

Saad el-Shazly was positioned in the middle of Sinai with a mixed unit of one infantry battalion, two Sa'ka battalions, and one tank battalion.

Saad el-Shazly eventually positioned himself in the Negev desert, behind most enemy lines.

Saad el-Shazly's unit managed to cover about 60 miles of ground throughout the Sinai, without any air support or intelligence.

Saad el-Shazly became the last military commander to pass from the east of the canal to the west.

Saad el-Shazly built his opinion that it is important to tailor the war strategy to your capabilities and according to the capabilities of the enemy.

Saad el-Shazly appointed Ahmed Ismail as the Minister of War and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces who before that had been recalled from retirement and appointed by President Anwar Sadat as Director of General Intelligence on 15 May 1971.

Saad el-Shazly told the president the long history of their differences, which made cooperation between them almost impossible.

Saad el-Shazly ended his book with a report to the Attorney General accusing President Sadat of abusing his powers.

Saad el-Shazly was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labor, and his property was placed under supervision.

Saad el-Shazly was deprived of legal representation and stripped of his political rights.

Saad el-Shazly disagreed with Sadat, and publicly criticized the Camp David Accords that Sadat signed with Israel in 1978; The dispute intensified to the point of removing Shazly's name and photos from the official list of the October War.

Saad el-Shazly ordered his formation of a special committee to prepare this directive as a method for the war plan.

Saad el-Shazly was posthumously awarded the Order of the Nile, Egypt's highest award, in October 2012 by President Mohammed Morsi for his conduct during the 1973 war with Israel.

Saad el-Shazly was honored by naming a new highway connecting the Cairo ring road to Ismailia desert road that is being built by the armed forces engineers.