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...late Anwar Sadat in 1974 launched al infitah (the opening), a much heralded attempt to promote foreign investment by lifting restrictions on trade and the movement of currency. In addition, the government promised that the peace treaty Egypt signed with Israel in March 1979 would lead to a business boom. Said the billboards in Cairo at the time: PEACE EQUALS PROSPERITY...
Egypt After Sadat--Herman Ellts, Hanna Batatu, Guldo Goldman, Mona Makram Ebeld and A.J. Meyer; Kennedy School Forum...
...government, the plan that the conspirators eventually put into effect was the work of an electrical engineer named Abdel Sallam Sallah Farag. He suggested having First Lieut. Khaled Ahmed Shawki el-Istambuli , a member of the Takfir wa Hijra (Atonement and Holy Flight) group, and three others shoot Sadat at the military-day parade. This plan was approved by Abboud Zomor in his hideout near the pyramids of Giza. It was also sanctioned by a fundamentalist group in the southern city of Asyut, which had launched attacks on police stations in Asyut soon after Sadat was killed. Finally, the plan...
...plotters were well financed and well armed. One ringleader of the group, Abboud Zomor, an ex-army major who deserted, was said to have plotted several ways of killing Sadat. He considered shooting the President at his rest house in the Nile Delta. He also thought of exploding a truckload of butane gas on a Cairo street as Sadat drove...
...Once Sadat had been killed, a leader of the group, Dr. Amin Youssef el Demeri, asked Abboud Zomor to delay any move to overthrow the government until a more careful plan could be worked out. Whether the conspirators were strong enough to take over at that point is doubtful. In any case, security forces moved in and arrested many of the plotters before they could take further action...