| ID | 136214 |
| Title Proper | Islam in Egypt |
| Other Title Information | the U.S. view, 1982 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Lippman, Thomas W |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | After the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on October 6, 1981, inves¬tigators determined that the attack had been carried out by Islamic militants who had in¬filtrated Egypt's armed forces. They arranged to participate in the annual military parade that commemorated the start of the 1973 war against Israel. Knowing that Sadat would be in a prominent position on the reviewing stand, soldiers armed with rifles and grenades emerged from a stopped truck and opened fire. Sadat was dead before reaching a hospital. Shortly afterward, political and intelligence analysts al the U.S. embassy in Cairo under¬took an effort to understand the causes, extent and implications of the religious radicalism that had taken root in Egypt in the late 1970s. A year after Sedatedeath, the embassy produced an extensive two-part report that was sent to the State Department and to other U.S. embassies in the Arab world. It was signed by Ambassador Alfred L. Atherton, but diplomatic dispatches are customarily sent out over the ambassador's signature. This was almost certainly a 'group effort. Now declassified, it was made available by the indefati¬gable researchers at the National Security Archive, an independent organization based at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Three decades after it was written, it is still a useful analysis of a phenomenon that has since spread across large parts of the Arab and Muslim worlds. Reformatted to eliminate the typographical peculiarities of State Department cables, it is published here for the first time. |
| `In' analytical Note | Middle East Policy Vol.21, No.4; Win.2014: p.133-150 |
| Journal Source | Middle East Policy Vol: 21 No 4 |
| Standard Number | International Community |