Nasser (c) with Khrushchev (2l) and Ben Bella (l) in Aswan, Egypt, in December 1964 - Getty As Baghdad correspondent for The Telegraph after the fall of Saddam Hussein, I hired “Colonel Ahmed”, an ...

There is a time to retreat, just as there is a time to advance, and last week Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, zealous leader of Egypt’s revolution, knew that the time had come to retire to more ...