Article: EGYPT: SOLEMN MILITARY FUNERAL FOR FIELD MARSHAL ABU-GHAZALA.(Obituary)

President Hosni Mubarak led on Sunday 7/9/2008 the funeral procession of former defense minister Field Marshal Mohamed Abdel-Halim Abu-Ghazala. Abu-Ghazala was announced dead Saturday 6/9/2008 night following a long battle against larynx cancer. He died at 78. The funeral procession began in front of the Unknown Soldier's Memorial in the Cairo suburb of Nasr City and moved to Al-Rashdan Mosque where the funeral service was held. Grand Sheikh of El-Azhar led the funeral prayers that were held after the noon prayers. The coffin of the deceased was drapped in the Egyptian flag ...

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