assassination of Anwar Sadat occurred on 6 October 1981 . Anwar Sadat , the President of Egypt , was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr , during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back a small part of the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War . A fatwa approving the assassination had been obtained from Omar Abdel-Rahman , a cleric later convicted in the US for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing . The assassination was undertaken by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad
1993 World Trade Center bombing
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Assassination of Anwar Sadat