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...work of an electrical engineer named Abdel Sallam Sallah Farag. He suggested having First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki el-Istambuli , a member of the Takfir wa Hijra (Atonement and Holy Flight) group, and three others shoot Sadat at the military-day parade. This plan was approved by Abboud Zomor in his hideout near the pyramids of Giza. It was also sanctioned by a fundamentalist group in the southern city of Asyut, which had launched attacks on police stations in Asyut soon after Sadat was killed. Finally, the plan was accepted by the plotters' spiritual leader, a blind mufti named...
...plotters were well financed and well armed. One ringleader of the group, Abboud Zomor, an ex-army major who deserted, was said to have plotted several ways of killing Sadat. He considered shooting the President at his rest house in the Nile Delta. He also thought of exploding a truckload of butane gas on a Cairo street as Sadat drove...
Once Sadat had been killed, a leader of the group, Dr. Amin Youssef el Demeri, asked Abboud Zomor to delay any move to overthrow the government until a more careful plan could be worked out. Whether the conspirators were strong enough to take over at that point is doubtful. In any case, security forces moved in and arrested many of the plotters before they could take further action...
Egyptian officials said the mastermind of the plot was Abboud Zomor, a major in the Egyptian army who deserted several weeks before the assassination. Zomor was captured two weeks ago after a gun battle near the pyramids. The four other men captured immediately after the attack are now reported to be in good health, and will soon be tried and, if found guilty of murder, presumably executed...
...friends on Wall Street and none at all on the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has charged that in effect the company's board of directors amounts to little more than a rubber stamp for the chairman. So far, there is slight reason to believe that Abboud's arrival will change Occidental's one-man-band character very much...