On October 6, 1981, Gamal, then seventeen, was sitting in the grandstand, eight seats away from President Anwar Sadat, at a military procession commemorating the 1973 Yom Kippur war with Israel. (His father was then the Vice-President.) Four soldiers assassins from the radical group Egyptian Islamic Jihad broke from the ranks and turned toward the stand, firing automatic rifles and hurling grenades.
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