October 6, 2014 Archives

The Assassination of Anwar Sadat

On Oct. 6, 1981, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated during the annual victory parade in Cairo. A fatwa approving the assassination had been obtained from Omar Abdel-Rahman, a cleric later convicted in the U.S. for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The lead assassin Khalid Islambouli shouted "Death to Pharaoh!" as he r


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