Led by Khaled el Islambouli, a lieutenant in the Egyptian army with connections to the terrorist group Takfir Wal-Hajira, the terrorists, all wearing army uniforms, stopped in front of the reviewing stand and fired shots and threw grenades into a crowd of Egyptian government officials. Sadat, who was shot four times, died two hours later.
Ten other people also died in the attack.
Despite Anwar Sadat’s incredible public service record for Egypt (he was instrumental in winning the nation its independence and democratizing it), his controversial peace negotiation with Israel in 1977-78, for which he and Menachem Begin won the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize, made him a target of Islamic extremists across the Middle East.
Anwar Sadat had also angered many by allowing the ailing Shah of Iran to die in Egypt rather than be returned to Iran to stand trial for his crimes against the country.
About Anwar Sadat(Dec 25,1918 - Oct 06,1981)
was the 3rd President of Egypt from October 15,1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on October 06,1981
In his eleven years as president -
changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from many of the political and economic tenets of Nasserism, re-instituting a Multi-party system and launching the Infitah economic policy
led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to regain Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had occupied since the Si-Day War of 1967, making him a hero in Egypt
engaged in negotiations with Israel culminating in the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty which won him and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin the 1978 Nobel Prize ,making Sadat the first MuslimNobel laureate.
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