CAIRO - The eldest daughter of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat has accused ex-President Hosni Mubarak of involvement in her father's assassination almost 30 years ago. Roqaya el-Sadat's lawyer, Samri Sabri lodged a report with Egypt's Chief Prosecutor Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud, seeking interrogation of Mubarak, former Minister of Housing Hasballah el-Kafrawi, and former leftist MP, Abul-Ezz el-Hariri on Sadat's killing. Sabri referred to reports published at the weekend quoting el-Kafrawi as saying that Mubarak had been involved in the slaying of his predecessor. el-Hariri supported what the former Minister said, according to the lawyer. El-Kafrawi was quoted as telling a Delta rally that over the past years he had collected information about the assassination of Sadat during a military parade, on October 6, 1981, adding that the late President had not killed by the bullets fired by Islamist Army officer Khalid Islambouli, the chief convict in the murder. He said other bullets came from inside the stand where Sadat and other military commanders, senior officials and high-profile dignitaries were sitting. The former Housing Minister concluded that days would reveal that Mubarak had a hand in the assassination, as he and Israel's Moussad allegedly stood to benefit from the murder. Lawyer Sabri urged quick investigations to refer Mubarak to a criminal trial for “the predetermined killing”. Last year, Roqaya filed complaint to the Chief Prosecutor against a former aide of her father over claims Sadat had poisoned his predecessor Gamal Abdel Nasser. She accused Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, a prominent journalist who was Sadat's aide and adviser for some years, of libel. In a programme on the pan-Arab satellite TV Al-Jazeera, Heikal said Nasser had died three days after Sadat personally prepared a cup of coffee for him, implying the beverage was poisoned. Nationalist leader Nasser suffered a heart attack and died in office on September 28, 1970, according to his doctors. Sadat, who was Nasser's deputy at the time, then took over as president. He was gunned down in 1981 by Islamist militants opposed to a peace deal he agreed with Israel.
