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The nine men who had constituted themselves as the Committee of the Free Officers Movement and led the 1952 Revolution were Lieutenant Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser , Major Abdel Hakim Amer , Lieutenant Colonel Anwar El-Sadat , Major Salah Salem , Major Kamal Ad Din Husayn , Wing Commander Gamal Salem , Squadron Leader Hassan Ibrahim , Major Khalid Muhi Ad Din , and Wing Commander Abd Al Latif Al Baghdadi . Major Hussien Al-Shafii and Lieutenant Colonel Zakaria Muhi Ad-Din joined the committee later. Similar movements were organized by other Arab politicians seeking to mimick Nasser's ascent. For example, Libya n president Muammar Al-Qaddafi used a similar group to overthrow the Libyan King Idris in 1969, and the leaders of the Syria n Ba'ath Party used a similar group to overthrow the Nasser organized union between Egypt and Syria (see United Arab Republic ) in 1961. In Saudi Arabia during the 1960's the Saudi Prince Talal used a similar idea, the Free Princes Movement in an unsuccessful effort to overthrow his country's conservative monarchy. He was exiled to Egypt as a result and was given asylum by Nasser. The Free Officers Movement can be seen in context in the entries for Nasser and Naguib . The name was consciously assumed by opposition leaders in Saddam Hussein 's Iraq , led by Brigadier-General Najib Al-Salihi , who signed a confederation agreement with the Assyrian National Congress on June 15, 2002. EXTERNAL LINK
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