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Khalid Al-Islambuli

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included three 'active' field howitzers, a reserve field gun, five to six transport trucks, seven jeeps, signaling equipment, light infantry weapons such as assault rifles, medium machine guns, anti-tank rockets, light mortars, and sniper rifles for organic defence, and around 45 soldiers/conscripts, with a
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began to approach the President's platform, Islambouli, along with Junior Sergeant Abdelhameed Abdul Salaam, 31, Corporal Ata Tayel Hameeda Raheel, 21, and Corporal Hussein Abbas, 21, leapt from their truck and ran towards the stand while lobbing grenades toward where the President was standing with
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movement. Between 1976 and 1980, he served mostly as a staff officer or as fire direction officer for various artillery batteries, battalions and regiments. In March 1980, he got his first field command, an artillery platoon gun line in the 116th Field Artillery Brigade based in Cairo. His command
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Islambouli was captured immediately after the assassination. He and twenty-three conspirators, including eight military personnel, were tried before an Egyptian court-martial. Found guilty of murder, 27-year-old Islambouli was executed by
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Islambouli and his platoon originally were not supposed to participate in the October parade, but they were chosen by the Military Intelligence, which was infiltrated by Islamist sympathizers under
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acting as second-in-command and third-in-command respectively. His role was to take firing missions and orders from the Battery HQ.
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victory parade on 6 October 1981. Al-Islambuli stated that his primary motivation for the assassination was Sadat's signing of the
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On 31 July 2004, "The al-Islambouli Brigades of al-Qaeda" claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on
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group calling itself "The al Islambouli Brigades" issued a statement claiming responsibility for the
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and Sadat's plan for a more progressive Egypt. Al-Islambuli was tried before an Egyptian
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before returning to Egypt through Iran, mentioned in an interview with Iran's state-run
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that she was proud of her son who killed Anwar Al-Sadat, as he was defending Islam.
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decided to rename that street to "Intifada" (Uprising) in 2004, in order to improve
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came close to assassinating the Egyptian President and Sadat's successor
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Once his platoon containing three heavy trucks towing
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In 2012, Islambouli's mother, Qadriya, who lived in
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Statement from the Chechen "Al-Islambouli Brigades"
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Minya Governorate
Republic of Egypt
Execution by firing squad
Egypt
Egyptian Islamic Jihad
Egyptian Army

First Lieutenant
Executed
Conviction(s)
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assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat
6th October
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