the united states gained independence from the british empire.
the united states gained independence from the british empire.
where did the united states gain independence from?
the british empire
the effort for independence was spearheaded by tunku abdul rahman, the first prime minister of malaysia, who led a delegation of ministers and political leaders of malaya in negotiations with the british in london for "merdeka", or independence along with the first president of the malaysian chinese association (mca) tun dato sir tan cheng lock and fifth president of malaysian indian congress tun v. t. sambanthan. once it became clear that the communist threat posed during the malayan emergency was petering out, agreement was reached on 8 february 1956, for malaya to gain independence from the british empire. however, logistical and administrative reasons led to the official proclamation of independence in the next year, on 31 august 1957, at stadium merdeka (independence stadium), in kuala lumpur, which was purposely built for the celebrations of national independence day. the announcement of the day was set months earlier by the tunku in a meeting of the alliance in melaka.
hari merdeka
the decision to set up an egyptian intelligence service was taken by president gamal abdel nasser in 1954, and placed under the command of zakaria mohieddin. the agency's importance rose when nasser assigned its command to salah nasr, who held the post of director of the gid from 1957 to 1967 and thoroughly reorganized the agency. under nasr's supervision, the gid relocated to its own building and established separate divisions for "radio", "computer", "forgery" and "black operations". to cover the agency's expenses, nasr set up al nasr company, ostensibly an import-export firm, as a front organization. he played a very important role helping algeria, southern yemen and many arab and african states gain independence. although the egyptian foreign ministry was officially responsible for foreign affairs, gid initiated and aided many arab and african movements for independence as a part of gamal abdel nasser's anti-imperialist policies. nasr established good relations with other intelligence agencies across the globe, which helped providing egypt with wheat and establishing industries such as (al nasr company for motor cars). one of his constructions is the gezeera tower in cairo.
general intelligence directorate (egypt)