The daughter of Anwar El-Sadat has accused former president Hosni Mubarak of involvement in her father's assassination, reports Reem Leila Ruqaya El-Sadat, eldest daughter of former president Anwar El-Sadat, has submitted a report to the prosecutor-general accusing former president Hosni Mubarak of complicity in the assassination of her father on 6 October 1981. Ruqaya argues that Tarek and Aboud El-Zomor, recently released after serving hefty sentences for their part in the assassination of her father, "were tricked into playing a role in a bigger scheme". Samir Sabri, her lawyer, told Al-Ahram Weekly that he was in possession of new evidence proving the involvement of Mubarak in the assassination. "I have presented an official request to Prosecutor-General Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud seeking the interrogation of former minister of housing Hassaballah El-Kafrawi, leftist MP Abul-Ezz El-Hariri, Ezzeddin Awad, head of Central Association of Cement Traders, in addition to other witnesses of the assassination," says Sabri. The request appears to be based on reports published in Al-Masaeya and Sawt Al-Umma newspapers quoting both El-Kafrawi and El-Hariri as saying they have documents proving the involvement of Mubarak in the killing of his predecessor. Press reports have appeared saying that El-Kafrawi was not only compiling his own dossier on the assassination of Sadat but had uncovered evidence that the president was not killed by the bullets fired by Islamist army officer Khaled El-Islambouli but by shots from within the podium in which Sadat and other dignitaries were watching the military parade. The former housing minister bases the possibility that Mubarak had a hand in the assassination on the grounds that he, and Mossad, were the major beneficiaries of Sadat's murder. El-Kafrawi refuted the press reports that suggested he had concrete evidence of Mubarak's involvement on Egyptian Television's website. He also said he would be unwilling to testify in court. Sabri was questioned for nine hours at the prosecution-general on 27 March over his request to interrogate former officials. Ruqaya El-Sadat will also be interrogated within the next few days. Should the prosecution-general be convinced by any alleged new evidence the case would then be reopened and most probably referred to criminal investigation, though Sabri has made it clear he would prefer a military trial. "Both the assassinated and the assassin were military figures. And if Mubarak were to be convicted he should face a firing squad, as military regulations demand," says Sabri. El-Hariri told the Weekly that Mubarak, along with former Field Marshal Abdel-Halim Abu Ghazala, former head of General Intelligence Omar Suleiman and former minister of interior El-Nabawi Ismail, knew that Sadat would be assassinated during the military parade. Sabri also claims that Atef Hammad, the doctor who examined Sadat following the assassination, is ready to testify that the final medical report was a fabrication. According to Sabri photographs were removed as well as statements that there were several bullets in Sadat's thigh and other parts of his lower body. He has also alleged that former Military Intelligence officer Mamdouh Abu Gabal informed his superiors of plans to assassinate Sadat but his report was ignored. "Abu Gabal's kinsman Yehia Hammad was the one who provided El-Islambouli with weapons. Abu Gabal reported the incident to all concerned parties but no one was interested," says Sabri. Last year Ruqaya El-Sadat filed a lawsuit against Mohamed Hassanein Heikal for claiming that her father poisoned his predecessor Gamal Abdel-Nasser. In a programme on Al-Jazeera, Heikal said Nasser died three days after Sadat personally prepared a cup of coffee for him, implying the drink was poisoned. Nasser suffered a heart attack and died in office on 28 September 1970 according to his doctors.
