Sadat Assassinated: Cairo Parade Ends in Blood
Anwar Sadat was watching a military parade on October 6, 1981, when a truck stopped directly in front of the reviewing stand and soldiers jumped out firing automatic weapons. Lieutenant Khalid Islambouli, the lead assassin, shouted 'I have killed Pharaoh' as he emptied his magazine into the Egyptian president. Sadat had signed the Camp David Accords with Israel three years earlier, becoming the first Arab leader to make peace with the Jewish state. Fundamentalists considered this an unforgivable betrayal. His vice president, Hosni Mubarak, sat just meters away and survived. Mubarak took power and held it for 30 years. The peace treaty with Israel survived too, though it cost Sadat his life and earned him expulsion from the Arab League.
October 6, 1981
45 years ago
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Anwar al-Sadat
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Auguste Beernaert
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