Editing Khalid Islambouli (section)


[[File:Khalid Islambouli.jpeg|thumb|160px|right]]Khalid Islambouli was an Egyptian Army officer who planned and participated in the assassination of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Egypt Egypt's third president], [[Anwar Sadat]], during the annual [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_War 6th October] victory parade on 6 October 1981. Islambouli stated that his primary motivation for the assassination was Sadat's signing of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords Camp David Accords] with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Israel State of Israel]. He was tried by a military tribunal, found guilty, and sentenced to death. Following his execution, Islambouli was declared a martyr by many radicals in the Islamic world, and became an inspirational symbol for radical Islamic movements as one of the first 'modern [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahid_%28martyr%29 Shahids]'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Jamestown_1-0">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Islambouli#cite_note-Jamestown-1 [1]]</sup>