Gamal Nasser And Muammar Gaddafi | 1970

Footage of Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi meeting President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt in Cairo on two separate visits in June and April of 1970. The first segment covers a visit between Wednesday, June 10th 1970 and Friday, June 12th and shows scenes of a motorcade, a visit to Elsaida Zeineb Mosque where both men prayed, while the segment with both men seated together was during an earlier visit by Gaddafi on Monday, April 27th 1970. On Gaddafi's right is Vice President Anwar Sadat,who would succeed Nasser on Nasser's death later in 1970. Also present were Lt. Colonel Abu Younis, the Chief of Staff of the Libyan Army and Egypt's Minister of War, General Mohamed Fawzi. The earlier segment covering the visit to the mosque shows glimpses of Sadat, Fawzi and Egyptian Air Force chief, Hosni Mubarak, who would succeed Sadat after Sadat's assassination in 1980. Source of footage: Reuters News Archive. Music: "Ya Gamal Ya Habib El Malayeen" by Abdel Halim Hafez.