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KILLING A LEADER

ANWAR SADAT, YITZHAK RABIN, and BENAZIR 1918 - 1981 GAMAL ABDEL AL-NASSER, 1918 - 1970 – PRESIDENT OF NOVEMBER 20, 1977 Sadat speaks at the Israeli . This marked the first time an Arab leader spoke at the Knesset. Camp David meetings, September, 1978 Peace treaty between Egypt and signed, March 26, 1979 Left to right: Anwar Sadat, President , OMAR ABDUL-RAHMAN AKA – “The Blind Sheikh” Born 1938

Issued the fatwa against Sadat. Leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and currently imprisoned in the US for a number of terrorist related activities. AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIR 1951- Currently the leader of Al-Qaeda KHALID EL-ISLAMBOULI 1955-1982

First Lieutenant in the Egyptian Army – Coordinated the attack. Executed in 1982 by the Egyptian state and declared a martyr by Ayatollah Khomeini Sadat and eleven others were killed. Twenty eight were wounded.

YITZHAK RABIN 1922 - 1995 Yitzhak Rabin and sign the Peace Accords, , 1993 Signing of the / Israel peace treaty. October 26, 1994 Left to right: King , President Clinton and Yitzhak Rabin King Hussein and Yitzhak Rabin lighting up. Footage from Rabin’s , , 1995 – Rabin’s assassin Copy of Shirah Shalom Rabin used for the peace anthem moments before he was assassinated. BENAZIR BHUTTO 1953 - 2007

Prime Minister of 1988 – 1990 1993 - 1996 The moment of assassination. Twenty people in addition to Bhutto were killed. Bhutto’s body moments after her assassination Aftermath of the explosion during Bhutto’s assassination NBC Nightly News clip, 1995

hps://www..com/watch?v=tIj6V8zugtE ABC news report, October 7, 1981 hp://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/ oct-1981-aermath-sadat- assassinaon-11198745 ABC news report, October 6, 1981

hp://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/ oct-1981-anwar-sadat-assassinated-11165149 From the Oxford English Dictionary

EXTREMIST

One who is disposed to go to the extreme, or who holds extreme opinions; a member of a party advocating extreme measures.

Holding extreme opinions. From the Oxford English Dictionary FANATIC

a. Of an action or speech: Such as might result from possession by a deity or demon; frantic, furious. Of a person: Frenzied, mad. b. Of persons, their actions, attributes, etc.: Characterized, influenced, or prompted by excessive and mistaken enthusiasm, esp. in religious matters.

c. A fanatic person; a visionary; an unreasoning enthusiast. Applied in the latter half of the 17th c. to Nonconformists as a hostile epithet. In the regions we have been discussing (or elsewhere for that matter), can political life be separated from religious life? Should these elements be separate? How do we reconcile the most fundamental questions about being (often answered by religious means) with the messy squalor of political calculation and democratic impulses? What do you feel are the primary differences in how and the Palestinian community view the actual land at the heart of the conflict? What do you make of the extremely public and intentional notoriety of Sadat and Rabin’s assassins versus the calculated secrecy of Bhutto’s? Are these leaders martyrs?