Mohamed Naguib Yousef Qotp Elkashlan: "We have had enough of corruption"

Mohamed Naguib was Egypt's first president, not Gamal Abdel Nasser as many people think. In fact, the regime that Nasser instilled (passed onto Sadat, Mubarak and now headed by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) and that we're still fighting today) seems to have taken measures to erase him almost entirely from public consciousness. Here's why:

"He wanted to phase out the political influence of the military and return the country to civilian rule, believing that the role of the military was not to rule the country, but rather to protect those in power. The army, he thought, could interfere to change a corrupt regime, but then it should withdraw."

Almost 60 years later, we're still fighting for the truly civilian rule desired by Naguib. On the other hand, the Muslim Brotherhood was starting to get a lot of support at around the same time so it may be very likely that they would have assumed control had democratic elections taken place. All I'm sure of, is that Egypt (and the entire Middle East) would have been a very different place had he not been deposed by Colonel Nasser.

Here's a picture of him on the cover of Times Magazine with the rather ironic quote "We have had enough of corruption".