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...shock and upheaval that followed the Sadat assassination, one prime initial suspect as the instigator of the crime was inevitable: Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. In a closed-door briefing for U.S. Congressmen, Secretary of State Alexander Haig last week noted that the exultant broadcasts of Radio Tripoli hailing the killing were so intense that, in his judgment, they must have been prepared ahead of time. In a rare public moment of harsh sorrow, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger declared on television that if Libya had been "taken care of," Egyptian President Anwar Sadat might still be alive...
...jets fired upon (and were destroyed) by U.S. F-14 Tomcats over the Gulf of Sidra. Most important, Gaddafi is in the forefront of those Arabs who oppose the Camp David accords. That makes him an automatic opponent of any Egyptian leader, including Hosni Mubarak, who intends to continue Sadat's peace initiative. Says a British analyst: "There is an irrationality in Gaddafi's makeup that defies explanation, and makes it virtually impossible to correctly assess his policies by any normal yardstick...
Another theoretical possibility is an invasion of Libya by outside forces. Sadat is known to have lamented that he did not seize the chance to do so in the early '70s, before Gaddafi consolidated his hold on power. Now such aggression would court major risks. Attacking Libya from Egypt, for example, would involve a brutal campaign across vast expanses of desert; with their plentiful arms stockpile, Libyans might do better than anyone expected...
...Anwar Sadat...
...onetime revolutionary firebrand and career military man, he died in a hail of bullets?yet history will remember Anwar Sadat, above all, as a man of peace...