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...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat stood reviewing his troops, a military truck halted in front of him and four uniformed men leaped out, firing automatic rifles at the reviewing stand. One of the men ran straight toward Sadat, pumping bullet after bullet into his body. "I am Khalid al-Islambouli!" the attacker shouted. "I have killed Pharaoh...
Army Lieut. al-Islambouli, a member of Jihad, was executed along with four others for the assassination. Abdel Rahman was indicted, accused of issuing a fatwa, or religious decree, ordering Sadat's murder, but was acquitted. The assassination of the first Arab leader to make peace with Israel settled nothing. The clash between Islamic religious and political authority is more widespread and in some places more threatening now than it was then. Today every secular Muslim government from North Africa to the Persian Gulf faces a challenge from radical fundamentalists. Their accusation is not just that political leaders have strayed...
...wisest have always known that a settlement imposed by outsiders rarely holds, that the end of enmity requires that the combatants themselves desire it. They know too that the glow of face-to-face agreements invariably fades as the vital enabling details are fashioned. Thus while Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin reached beyond Washington's mediation in the 1970s, cementing the eventual Egyptian-Israeli treaty required Jimmy Carter's skill at Camp David. The play today is similar. As only they could, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin have set the course, but America's continuing involvement is inevitable...
...That one meeting in London would lead to more than a dozen secretive sessions in Norway that would not only surprise Washington but produce the biggest breakthrough in Middle East negotiations since Anwar Sadat made peace with Menachem Begin in 1979. Only about two dozen people were aware of the proceedings. Within the Israeli Cabinet, just two people knew; among the Palestinians, even the P.L.O.'s foreign minister, Farouk Kaddoumi, was kept in the dark...
...says he was a member of assassinated President Anwar Sadat's bodyguard. But the commander of the guard does not remember...