Al-Sisi mourns Kamal Amer: "My teacher, my teacher and my leader"

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi mourned the head of the Defense and National Security Committee in the House of Representatives, Major General Kamal Amer, after his death from infection with the Corona virus.

"Egypt today lost one of its most valuable men, my teachers, professors, and leaders of Major General Kamal Amer, head of the Defense and National Security Committee in the House of Representatives," Sisi said in his Twitter post Thursday.

Adding that he was "loyal and faithful to the soil of the homeland until the last moment of his life."

Later, the spokesman for the Egyptian presidency, Bassam Rady, announced that Sisi's decision had been issued to promote Amer’s name “to the rank of an honorary lieutenant-general, with the award of the Nile scarf, and his name being given to one of the main axes or squares” in Egypt.

For his part, the Egyptian army mourned Kamal Amer, who worked as Director of Military Intelligence, the same position that Sisi held from January 2010 to August 2012.

Major General Kamal Amer graduated in 1962 from the Military Academy with the Infantry Corps, and obtained a Master of Military Sciences in October 1972, and obtained an Associate Degree in Military Strategy in June 1984.

Major General Kamal Amer obtained a doctorate in national strategy from the Nasser Higher Military Academy, and has many books on military history and Egyptian national security, and held all leadership positions in the infantry corps, then commander of the Egyptian forces on the second Gulf operations and chief of staff, and after that he assumed command The Third Field Army, and its chief of staff until 1994.

Amer also held many prominent civilian positions, such as governor of Matrouh and governor of Aswan.

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