Anwar Sadat

His Assassination

-Assassinated on October 6 ,1981 during the annual victory parade in Cairo

-Troops of men(assassins) dressed as soldiers flew overhead and in trucks with loaded guns and grenades

-Sadat was protected by four layers of security and eight bodyguards

-Sadat believed assassins were part of parade and waited to receive a salute

-Sadat rushed to hospital but died before arrival

-Death was caused by violent nervous shock and internal bleeding in chest cavity

-11 others were killed, around 38 injured

-Assassins dismounted and the lead gunman approached with hidden grenades

-Total of three grenades were thrown and guns were fired into the stands killing/injuring many

-Among the attackers was Khalid Islambouli

-Military failed to protect Sadat during a crucial point, but managed to kill one assassin and wounded the three others

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Anwar Sadat's

Early Life

Why was he assassinated?

-Born on December 25, 1918, in Mit Ab al-Kawm, Egypt

-Born into a family of 13 children

-His father, who worked in the army, and Sadat's grandfather were both literate and they passed their knowledge on to Sadat

-Attended the local Moslem Koran School and the Christian Coptic School (Elemenatary Schools)

-Grew up in an Egypt under British control

-Sadat was killed by Islamic radicals

-Peace agreement with Israel created great controversy

-They accused him of apostasy, and killed him on the day when he was celebrating his country’s perceived victory over Israel

Early Years Continued

Early Years

(Continued)

-Desired to be officer in military

-In 1936, the British created military school in Egypt where Sadat was among the first of its students

-After graduating from the Cairo Military Academy in 1938, Sadat meets Gamal Abdel Nasser at a base in Egypt

-The two of them formed a revolutionary group created to overthrow British rule and expel the British from Egypt.

-Arrested in 1942 but escaped 2 years later

-Implicated in the assassination of Amin Uthman but aquitted in 1948

-Joined Nasser's Free Organization after being released from prison

-Held high-level positions during Nasser's presidency and eventually became vice president

-Became temporary and then permanent president after Nasser's death on September 28, 1970

Anwar el-Sadat

The Assassination of Anwar el-Sadat

By Sammy Roberts, Bhakti Patel, and Jade Chang

Accomplishments

What he stood for and believed in

-Became one time president of Egypt (1970-1981)

-Shared the Nobel Peace Prize for establishing peace agreements with Israel in 1978

-One of Sadat’s most important domestic initiatives was the open-door policy

-Departing from many of the political and economic tenets of Nasserism

-Re-instituted a multi-party system

-Launching the Infitah economic policy

-Led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to regain Egypt's Sinai Peninsula

-The Camp David Accords of 1978

-Domestic and Foreign policies

-Anti Colonial beliefs (ridding Egypt of British rule

-Improve economic conditions and sustain world peace

-Great interest in Politics

-Egypt should be a state founded on faith and science.

His Presidency

-Galvanized the infitah (open door-policy)

-Egyptain economy decreased

-Gap between rich and poor larger than ever

-led to the food riots of 1977

-Focused more on foreign matters rather than domestic affairs

-Expelled members of the Soviet Union

-Initiated movements to make peace with Israel

-Yom Kippur War of 1973 over the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt and Syria vs. Israel)

-Signed the Camp David Accords on September 17, 1978

-Jailed 1000-1500 of his domestic opponents in 1981