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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
14. Killing of the rulers of Damascus and Egypt:
Before he comes, the in hab it ants of Egypt and Sham will kill their rul -
ers and their com mand ers... (Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Al-Qawl al-
Mukhtasar fi 'Alamat al-Mahdi al-Muntazar, p. 49.)
In 1981, Anwar al-Sadat (President of Egypt since 1970) was as sas si nat -
ed dur ing a mil i tary re view. Other Egyptian lead ers who have been killed in -
clude the prime min is ters Boutros Ghali (1910), Prime Minister Ahmed Ma-
her Pasha (1945), and Mahmoud Nukrashy Pasha (1948).
The word Sham is not used on ly for Damascus, for it al so means "left"
and has long been used to re fer to those coun tries to the west of the Hijaz
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(where the cit ies of Mecca and Madina lie). Many lead ers have been killed in
the re gion, among them;
Former Syrian prime min is ters Salah al-Din Bitar (1920),
Droubi Pasha (1921),
Muhsin al-Barazi (1949),
King Abdullah of Jordan (1951), and
the Lebanese Phalange lead er Bashir
Gemayel (1982). 6
Anwar Sadat was
assas si nat ed
(Above right) New York Times, September 15, 1982
(Below) Yeni Safak, April 11, 2003
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