[4] Its other functions included protecting Farouk, serving as a special operations force, and gathering military intelligence.
[9] Members included Muhammad Ibrahim Kamel,[13] Nahed Rashad,[13] and General Hussein Sirry Amer.
[8] The Iron Guard's acts of political violence in Egypt included the assassinations of Amin Osman, a former finance minister, in 1944; of Rafik al-Tarzi in 1945;[14] and of the Muslim Brotherhood leader Hassan al-Banna in 1949.
[15] Twelve members of the Iron Guard were court-martialed in Cairo on October 2, 1952, on charges of instigating and carrying out assassinations.
[8] They included General Amer, who was charged with the murder of an army maintenance corps lieutenant, hashish smuggling, and desertion.