CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptians attended the funeral of Khaled Abdul Nasser, late President Gamal Abdul Nasser's son, in Cairo, on Friday. Nasser died Thursday after months of illness and medical treatment. He was suffering from kidney disease. Nasser was 62. Many leftists and Nasserits attended the funeral that was led by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawy, head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Egypt's current highest authority during the transitional period. Following his father's death at the early age of 41, Nasser, the eldest among his four siblings, took over the family affairs. During the late 1980s he was accused of financing a radical movement titled “Egypt, Revolution” which allegedly assassinated security personnel at the Israeli embassy in Cairo and members received the death penalty by a Cairo court in absentia after fleeing to London, where he lived for several years. His sentences was later appealed and he was acquitted. BM
