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Mohamed Abdel-Baky in Counterpunch …

Nasser’s death 40 years ago still sparks debate in Egypt. Last week, in his weekly TV show on Al-Jazeera, political analyst Mohamed Hassanein Heikal marked the 40th anniversary of the late president’s death by .. mentioning what he called “the incident of the Nile Hilton coffee”, which occurred when Nasser was meeting Arafat in 1970. Heikal said Nasser looked “so angry” during an argument with Arafat that Anwar El-Sadat, who was vice-president at the time, offered to prepare a cup of coffee himself. According to Heikal Sadat “ordered the president’s chef out of the kitchen and made the coffee himself, which Nasser drank three days before he died” … A viewing public always ready to swallow conspiracy theories had been offered one on a plate — that Sadat murdered his predecessor

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