Abdel Latif Boghdadi (politician)

Abdel Latif Boghdadi or Abd elLatif elBaghdadi was an Egyptian politician, senior air force officer, and judge. An original member of the Free Officers Movement which overthrew the monarchy in Egypt in the 1952 Revolution, Boghdadi later served as Gamal Abdel Nassers vice president. The French author Jean Lacouture called Boghdadi a robust manager who only lacked stature comparable to Nassers. The two leaders had a fallout over Nassers increasingly socialist and proUSSR policies and Boghdadi subsequently withdrew from political life in 1964, although he mended ties with Nasser before the latters death in 1970.

Boghdadi was born in El Mansoura onSeptember 1917. He is known to have excelled at Egypts military academy in 1938 and, later on, its air force academy. He rose to the rank of wing commander in the Egyptian Air Force and was sent by the Egyptian government under Prime Minister Mustafa elNahhas to fight alongside the Arab Liberation Army at the onset of the 1948 ArabIsraeli War, prior to the arrival of the Egyptian Army.

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