Khalid Al-Islambuli

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Khalid al-Islambuli خالد الإسلامبولي
Islambouli in 1982
Born	(1955-01-15)15 January 1955 Minya Governorate, Republic of Egypt
Died	15 April 1982(1982-04-15) (aged 27) Egypt
Cause of death	Execution by firing squad
Allegiance	Executed
Conviction(s)	Assassinating President Anwar Sadat
Criminal penalty	Death

Khalid al-Islambuli (

Islambouli was born in Minya Governorate.^[2] His father, Ahmad Shawqi, was an Upper Egyptian legal advisor and his mother, Qadria Ali Yusuf, was of Turkish descent.^[3][4]

After graduating from the Egyptian Military Academy, he was commissioned as an officer in the Artillery Forces of the Egyptian Army with the rank of second lieutenant. Sometime after this appointment, Islambouli joined the proscribed Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement. Between 1976 and 1980, he served mostly as a staff officer or as fire direction officer for various artillery batteries, battalions and regiments. In March 1980, he got his first field command, an artillery platoon gun line in the 116th Field Artillery Brigade based in Cairo. His command included three 'active' field howitzers, a reserve field gun, five to six transport trucks, seven jeeps, signaling equipment, light infantry weapons such as assault rifles, medium machine guns, anti-tank rockets, light mortars, and sniper rifles for organic defence, and around 45 soldiers/conscripts, with a second lieutenant and a sergeant acting as second-in-command and third-in-command respectively. His role was to take firing missions and orders from the Battery HQ.^{[citation needed]}

Assassination of Sadat

Islambouli and his platoon originally were not supposed to participate in the October parade, but they were chosen by the Military Intelligence, which was infiltrated by Islamist sympathizers under

Once his platoon containing three heavy trucks towing M-46 field artillery guns began to approach the President's platform, Islambouli, along with Junior Sergeant Abdelhameed Abdul Salaam, 31, Corporal Ata Tayel Hameeda Raheel, 21, and Corporal Hussein Abbas, 21,^[6] leapt from their truck and ran towards the stand while lobbing grenades toward where the President was standing with other Egyptian and foreign dignitaries.^{[citation needed]}

Execution

Islambouli was captured immediately after the assassination. He and twenty-three conspirators, including eight military personnel, were tried before an Egyptian court-martial. Found guilty of murder, 27-year-old Islambouli was executed by

In 1982, Iran issued a stamp in his honor, showing him shouting defiantly from behind bars.^[7] In addition, Iran had named a street after him in Tehran. However, Tehran City Council decided to rename that street to "Intifada" (Uprising) in 2004, in order to improve relations with Egypt.^[11]

On 31 July 2004, "The al-Islambouli Brigades of al-Qaeda" claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on

In 2012, Islambouli's mother, Qadriya, who lived in Afghanistan before returning to Egypt through Iran, mentioned in an interview with Iran's state-run Fars News Agency that she was proud of her son who killed Anwar Al-Sadat, as he was defending Islam.^[14]

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