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The author comments on Montasser Al-Zayyat´s "Al-Zawahri as I knew him," through speaking about the reality of the claimed alliance took place between the Gama´at Al-Islamiya and the Jihad group. He also sheds light on the ideologies of the latter.
“All judges will not live for long, while the condemned, Khaled, is eternal.” With these words Abdel Rahman Al-Abnudy [a famous Egyptian poet] said goodbye to Khaled Al-Islambuli, Sadat’s assassin. Khaled Al-Islambuli appeared for the first time on 23 September 1981, when the leader of his unit...
Mountaser Al-Zayyat, the lawyer of the fundamentalist groups in Egypt, stated thatKhaled Al-Islamboly, the assassin of Sadat, was not a member of Al-Jihad organization or of the Gama’a Islamiya; he was closely linked to Muhammad Abdel Salam Farag, leader of Al-Jihad in 1981.
Dr. Mustafa Al-Fiqi, the assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared that Egyptian-Iranian relations are about to be restored. This follows Iran’s agreement with Egypt’s suggestion, to change the name of the Khaled Al-Islambouli Street in Tehran, to Sheikh Mahmoud Shaltout Street.
Nobody ever thought that the young man dressed in a suit and tarboush [head cover used widely in Egypt until the 1950’s], sitting in a cafe in [the city of] Ismailia with some of his friends, would be the founder of the biggest violent group in Egypt throughout the twentieth century. That was in...
It has become certain that the organizations of the extremist groups have almost come to a demise. Reuters and all news agencies reported about the division inside the Egyptian Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiyya. Refai Ahmed Taha, who is sentenced to death for the Luxor massacre carried out by Al-Gamaa in 1997...
Disagreements over the leadership in the Gama’at Al Islamiyya came yesterday to the open. Mohammed Shawki Al Islambuli, one of the leaders, assured from his exile in a declaration sent to Reuters that the leadership council of the Jihad group had submitted its resignation last year. He said that...
Egypt’s top diplomat in Iran said Tehran’s decision to name a street after the assassin of president Anwar Sadat was one of the chief obstacles to restoring full diplomatic ties with the country, Iranian papers said on August 25.
Iranian radicals painted a mural of Khaled Islambouli, the officer who killed Sadat during the military parade on October 6, 1981. Egyptians are not pleased.
Egypt and Iran are discussing a street sign in Tehran named after Khaled el-Islambouli, the man who killed late president Sadat in 1981. Full diplomatic ties between the two countries can only be restored after this street name is removed.

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