Assassination of Anwar Sadat
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On 6 October 1981, Anwar Sadat, the president of Egypt, was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate the victory over Israel in the Yom Kippur War, during which the Egy
Platform where Anwar Sadat was assassinated
Sadat (left) with U.S. President Jimmy Carter (right) in Washington, D.C., on 8 April 1980, during a visit to the White House.
A marker at the Unknown Soldier Memorial, where Sadat is buried.
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Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj
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Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj was an Egyptian radical Islamist, convicted murderer by proxy, and theorist. He led the Cairo branch of the Islamist group al-Jihad and made a significant contribution in e
Assassination of Anwar Sadat
…succeed in assassinating Anwar Sadat that October. However, while Al-Islambuli led the assassination squad, the assassination plot altogether was led by Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj, an Egyptian Islamic Jihad member who was a civilian engineer. According to Tal'at Fu'ad Qasim, ex-head of the Gama'a Islamiyya ('Assembly of Islam…
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