On the 40th anniversary of Camp David, Egyptian tycoon Shafik Gabr reflects on Sadat’s legacy
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gyptian businessman Shafik Gabr has vivid memories of where he was on October 6, 1981, the day his country’s president, Anwar Sadat, was assassinated.
Gabr, a close friend of Sadat’s sons-in-law, was working in his Cairo office when he received a telephone call describing “chaos” that erupted at the military parade Sadat was attending.
“I tried to make some phone calls,” Gabr said in a telephone interview last week from Cairo. “It was extremely difficult to reach anyone, but a dark thought entered my mind that something dramatic and drastic had happened.”
A few hours later, Gabr reached one of Sadat’s sons-in-law, who confirmed the worst.
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