Word: sadat
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...rift in what had been a relatively smooth relationship between Israel and Egypt since Sadat's death hardly helped to quell anxieties as Israel prepared to relinquish the last part of the Sinai on April 25. Hints by Israel that it might attack P.L.O. strongholds in southern Lebanon were also deeply worrying. To urge restraint on all parties, Washington dispatched Special Envoy Philip Habib to the region once again...
From the moment the attack was launched on a Cairo reviewing stand last Oct. 6, 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...
Throughout the trial, the 35 defense lawyers argued that there were grounds in Islamic law to end a tyrannical regime, and thus Sadat's murder was justified. The defendants have the right to appeal to President Mubarak to review their sentences...
...American) analysis before October 1973 agreed that Egypt and Syria lacked the capability to regain their territory by force of arms; hence it was assumed they would not attack. The premises were correct. The conclusions were not. What literally no one understood beforehand was the mind of Anwar Sadat. In his view, serious diplomacy was impossible while Israel considered itself militarily supreme and Egypt was paralyzed by humiliation. In 1972 he expelled Soviet troops from his country because of the disrespect shown by Soviet leaders toward Egyptians but above all because they would surely seek to impede his planned military...
...piece of the puzzle was Soviet intentions. My view is that the Soviets stopped short of encouraging the war but made no effort to halt it once they realized Sadat was determined to go to war. If the Arabs did well, the credit would go to Soviet arms and support. If they did poorly, Moscow thought it could emerge, as in 1967, as the champion of the radical Arab cause and perhaps even get rid of Egypt's troublesome Sadat. There was no doubt in my mind about the geopolitical stakes. About 90 minutes after we learned of the fighting...