Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Mubarak, Sadat's Assassin?

Roqaya al-Sadat, the daughter of former president Anwar Sadat, has accused ousted president Hosni Mubarak of involvement in the assassination of her father at the hands of Islamists in 1981.


In a report she filed with the attorney general, al-Sadat said new evidence has emerged to prove the complicity of Mubarak, after former minister Hasaballah al-Kafrawi made statements at a recent seminar about the assassination.

The report calls for referring Mubarak for criminal trial and the death penalty, according to Egyptian state media.

Al-Kafrawi claimed Sadat was not killed by bullets fired by Khaled Islambouli, the military academy student accused of the assassination in official accounts. Al-Kafrawi added that bullets were also fired from the podium where Sadat and Mubarak were standing together when Sadat died.

He said Mubarak had an interest Sadat's assassination.

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