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The Assassination of Anwar Sadat

President Anwar Sadat’s widow remembers the day he was assassinated. Plus, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, the boy kidnapped by Barbary pirates, and Austria’s wine scandal.

President Anwar Sadat’s widow remembers the day he was assassinated. Plus the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, the boy kidnapped by pirates and enslaved for 23 years, Britain’s Moors Murders and remembering Austria’s wine scandal.

(Photo: President Anwar Sadat (right) and his then deputy, Hosni Mubarak, at the military parade where moments later Sadat was gunned down by four army officers. (Credit: AFP)

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Mon 12 Oct 201504:06GMT
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