The World - News from Jan. 4, 1989
The nephew of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser returned voluntarily to Egypt to stand trial with members of a revolutionary group accused of killing Israeli diplomats. Gamal Shawki Abdel Nasser, charged with aiding members of the Egypt’s Revolution organization, pleaded not guilty in Cairo’s Supreme State Security Court and was granted bail. Nasser, 34, a doctor, was arrested and taken to the court after arriving by plane from London. The clandestine group claimed responsibility for killing two Israeli Embassy employees in 1985 and 1986, wounding an Israeli diplomat in 1984 and wounding two U.S. Embassy security men in 1987.
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