The third encounter XI- Anti-Nasser plot a 'hoax' THE Egyptian Gazette of May 3, 1966 reported Ikhwan admissions and denials in court. More important, that issue carried a very significant portion of the defence counsil pleadings for defendant Mohamed Abdel- Mo'ty. Under the headline of: Defence for Ikhwan command says: anti-Nasser plot a 'hoax' “A trick designed to extract money” The Gazette said: The defence counsil for defendant Mohamed Abdel-Mo'ty, Maitre Salaeddin el-Sohaly, told the court how his client had fallen a victim to the formation's leaders and how he had rejected the instructions issued to him by the command in connection with sabotage operations. “There are things in the investigation papers that make me believe that the idea of assassinating the President was but a trick aimed at extracting money from King Faisal,” he said. Meanwhile, the defence counsil for accused Mohamed Ma'amoun Yehia, Maitre Hossameddin Abdel- Rahman, said that the false and poisonous ideas, which the formation had cultivated in the mind of his client had brought him to the dock. He condemned Sayed Kotb's Landmarks on the Road. The defendant, he added, had joined the formation only for religious purposes, not knowing that it was an extension to the terrorist Ikhwan Al-Muslimeen formations. He then demanded the acquittal of his client. [email protected]
