Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi
Abdul Karim al-Nahlawi | |
|---|---|
| Native name | عبد الكريم النحلاوي |
| Born | 1926 (age 97–98) Syrian Arab Republic |
| Rank | Lieutenant colonel |
Abd al-Karim al-Nahlawi (
another coup against his former political allies Nazim al-Qudsi, Maarouf al-Dawalibi and Khalid al-Azm. After this failed coup, he briefly held diplomatic posts in Indonesia, Pakistan, Morocco and Turkey, but after the 8th March 1963 Baathist coup d'état, he was expelled from the army and went into exile in Saudi Arabia, where he has lived ever since.[1]
Al-Nahlawi was a lieutenant colonel in the combined Syrian-Egyptian army when he headed a coalition of moderate officers from Damascus in a coup on behalf of Maamun al-Kuzbari,[note 1] and in collaboration with Haydar al-Kuzbari (who was married to Al-Nahlawi's sister and is the cousin of Maamun al-Kuzbari), and Muwafak 'Asasa (موفق عصاصة). The coup was against Nasser and locally his deputy Abdel Hakim Amer, who was the Egyptian viceroy in Syria.[2] The Syrian officers were to some degree operating at the behest of the Syrian middle and upper class who opposed Nasser's socialist policies and in particular land reform.
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- ^ Cited by name by Gamal Abdel Nasser in the Ministerial Council of 19 October 1961, as deceitfully praising the union and socialist policies in public whilst conspiring the coup, which was the case of several of Syria's class of hereditary notables and financial rentiers who all pretended to be Nasserists with zeal.