Martin Antonenko
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The "Pharaoh" is murdered!
On October 6, 1981, Mohammed Anwar al-Sadat...
... the autocratically governing President of Egypt and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (since 1978) was assassinated by an attack by four Islamists from the Al-Jihad group during a military parade in Cairo commemorating the crossing of the Suez Canal at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War.
The previous summer, pogroms had taken place in Cairo in which Copts were massacred by Muslims. Sadat then had 1,536 members of the opposition arrested across the country, mostly Muslim Brotherhood.
When Egyptian army lieutenant Khalid al-Islambuli...
...when he learns of the arrest of a biological brother on September 3rd, he becomes furious and proposes to fellow believers that Sadat be killed at the forthcoming parade.
Islambuli was assigned to the parade as the commander of a truck, furloughed three subordinates and replaced them with infiltrated accomplices.
Since no loaded weapons should be carried during the parade (the security authorities acted extremely carefully!), but officers were not checked, he provided ammunition and hand grenades himself.
Arrived in front of Sadat's grandstand...
... Islambuli brings the vehicle to a standstill and jumps off with his accomplices...:
Then they attack with their hand grenades and AK 47 assault rifles...:
Sadat is hit by 37 bullets...
... and dies like seven of his guests.
The assassination takes place in front of the television cameras, and the leader of the assassins shouts in their direction: “I killed the pharaoh!” .
Islambuli was arrested immediately after the assassination. He and his 23 conspirators, including eight military personnel, were tried before an Egyptian military court...:
All of the accused were found guilty and shot dead on April 15, 1982...:
Almost needless to say, the Iranian revolutionary leader Khomeini subsequently declared the killer a "martyr of the holy war"...
On October 6, 1981, Mohammed Anwar al-Sadat...
... the autocratically governing President of Egypt and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (since 1978) was assassinated by an attack by four Islamists from the Al-Jihad group during a military parade in Cairo commemorating the crossing of the Suez Canal at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War.
The previous summer, pogroms had taken place in Cairo in which Copts were massacred by Muslims. Sadat then had 1,536 members of the opposition arrested across the country, mostly Muslim Brotherhood.
When Egyptian army lieutenant Khalid al-Islambuli...
...when he learns of the arrest of a biological brother on September 3rd, he becomes furious and proposes to fellow believers that Sadat be killed at the forthcoming parade.
Islambuli was assigned to the parade as the commander of a truck, furloughed three subordinates and replaced them with infiltrated accomplices.
Since no loaded weapons should be carried during the parade (the security authorities acted extremely carefully!), but officers were not checked, he provided ammunition and hand grenades himself.
Arrived in front of Sadat's grandstand...
... Islambuli brings the vehicle to a standstill and jumps off with his accomplices...:
Then they attack with their hand grenades and AK 47 assault rifles...:
Sadat is hit by 37 bullets...
... and dies like seven of his guests.
The assassination takes place in front of the television cameras, and the leader of the assassins shouts in their direction: “I killed the pharaoh!” .
Islambuli was arrested immediately after the assassination. He and his 23 conspirators, including eight military personnel, were tried before an Egyptian military court...:
All of the accused were found guilty and shot dead on April 15, 1982...:
Almost needless to say, the Iranian revolutionary leader Khomeini subsequently declared the killer a "martyr of the holy war"...
