Word: islambuli
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...killing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, at least some of the 24 defendants who later went on trial for the assassination knew how their mission would end. Last Saturday a three-judge army tribunal announced its verdict: death for the leader of the plot, First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki Islambuli, his three hit-team accomplices and another of the ringleaders; prison sentences ranging from five years to life for 17 others involved in the conspiracy. Two were acquitted...
...that dramatic public confession, First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki Islambuli, 24, a stocky artillery officer in the Egyptian army, last week told a three-judge military tribunal how he had assassinated President Anwar Sadat during a military parade on Oct. 6. Islambuli is accused of leading the four-man hit team that jumped out of a truck during the parade and charged the reviewing stand, firing automatic weapons and hurling grenades. Seven other people died in the attack, and 28 were wounded...
...Islambuli expressed no remorse for the assassination. Indeed, he said, "I am proud of it because the cause of religion was at stake." Nonetheless, his court-appointed attorney entered a plea of not guilty on the ground that Islambuli did not feel that he had committed a crime. Charged with murder are Islambuli and three other defendants alleged to have been on the hit team: an engineer, the owner of a bookshop, and a reserve army sergeant who had won an award for marksmanship. Also on trial were 20 other Muslim fundamentalists, who are charged in a 754-page indictment...
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