Word: ghazala
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...When Defense Minister General Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala signaled me to go away, I told him to get out of the way. I don't want you,' I said. 'I want this dog, this tyrant Sadat...
...fire, the sounds of frightened screams and crashing chairs exploded, and the crowd stampeded for the exits at the rear. Sadat was struck by bullets or fragments. Others fell around him. "I pulled the President down, and someone else tried to shield him with a couple of chairs," Abu Ghazala said later. "I felt the bullets flying all around me. I could feel the heat of them. Twice I thought it was all over: when I saw the grenade flying toward me, and when I saw a gun barrel right in my face, just five feet away from...
...that led straight to Sadat. The only shield afforded the President came when several plainclothesmen threw chairs over Sadat in a hopeless bid to save his life. Once the assassins had turned to flee toward the moving truck, the security guards gave chase, firing pistols and automatic rifles. Abu Ghazala, who had received shrapnel cuts in his face and right arm, sought to restore order amid the bloody chaos. "I told everybody to shut up," he said later, "and I ordered the military police to take charge." In the end, fire from the guards killed one of the attackers...
Amid the screams and shouts of the terrified crowd, Abu Ghazala radioed a military facility near by for a helicopter to pick up the stricken President. It arrived three or four minutes later in an area behind the reviewing stand. Jehan Sadat, who had watched the assault unfold from her box, tried to rush to her husband's side, but was pushed down forcefully by her security guard. She finally reached Sadat's side as he was lifted on a stretcher into the helicopter for the 20-minute flight to Maadi Military Hospital, south of Cairo, where the deposed Shah...
...parade, Khaled had ordered other troopers off their truck and substituted the assassins. According to Defense Minister Abdel Halim Abu Gha-zala, the four had purchased on the black market the grenades and guns they used in the attack. "It was very primitive, but successful," said Abu Ghazala. "At this point we do not believe they are part of a larger group...