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CAIRO: The passport of the late Egyptian President Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat was handed to his museum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the city of Alexandria, a month and a half after it was controversially sold at auction in the US.

In a statement, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina said it had been “instructed to include the recovered passport in the collection of the late president’s holdings in the library.”

Ahmed Zayed, the library’s director, said that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi had directed state agencies to move quickly to retrieve the passport after it was sold by the American Heritage Auction Hall in February.

How the passport came to be at a US auction house is not clear, nor has it been revealed how Egyptian authorities were able to retrieve it.

After it became known the item would be auctioned, Karim Talaat El-Sadat, a member of Egypt’s House of Representatives and the grandson of the late president, said in a statement: “El-Sadat gave a lot to the homeland throughout the years of his life, and he does not deserve to have his passport sold in a foreign auction house.

“This is an insult that we will not accept as a family or as representatives of the Egyptian people who adore the late president.

“We will not accept, as Egyptians, the sale of El-Sadat’s rich history in this humiliating way without taking action to stop it.”

He denied the late president’s family had nothing to do with the passport’s exit abroad or its sale at auction, and called on Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the concerned authorities to immediately intervene to retrieve

A military prosecutor charged Talaat Sadat, who also is an opposition lawmaker, with “spreading false rumours and insulting the [Egyptian] armed forces” after questioning him for six hours, officials said on Sunday.

In an interview with the private, Saudi-owned Orbit TV station last week, Talaat Sadat alleged that the assassination was an “international conspiracy” with the participation of his uncle’s personal guards and some army commanders.

He claimed both the US and Israel were involved.

Anwar Sadat, the former Egyptian president, was killed during a military parade in Cairo on October 6, 1981.

Sadat also questioned the promotion of some of the guards by the government of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, who replaced Sadat.

Talaat Sadat’s trial is scheduled to begin on October 11, they said. He could face a five-year prison term if found guilty. 

Sadat has denied the charges, saying the Egyptian government wants to “get rid” of him because he expresses opposition.

No legal concerns

Earlier in the week, Talaat Sadat told the Arabic independent daily, Al Masry Al Youm, he would ask the parliament to form a committee to reinvestigate the circumstances of his uncle’s assassination. If the parliament did not agree, he said he would go to the UN.

Following those remarks, Fathi Sorour, Egypt‘s parliament speaker, stripped Talaat Sadat of his parliamentary immunity – a step necessary to bring any charges against him.

Anwar Sadat’s family members have distanced themselves from the former president’s nephew, saying Talaat Sadat speaks for himself.

“From a legal point of view, I’m not concerned,” Talaat Sadat said on Sunday. “But I’m worried about a vindictive regime, which knows nothing about democracy or respecting lawmakers or citizens.”

An Egyptian group also has asked the UN to investigate Sadat’s death similar to the UN’s effort to look into last year’s assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Raf

Egypt recently lost the lawyer, politician, and some-time political prisoner Talaat al-Sadat, who was the nephew of Egypt’s former president Anwar al-Sadat.

WATANI International

25 November 2011

Egypt recently lost the lawyer, politician, and some-time political prisoner Talaat al-Sadat, who was the nephew of Egypt’s former president Anwar al-Sadat. 

Sadat was born in 1946 in the village of Tala in Menoufiya in the Nile Delta. He earned a law degree in 1985, and advanced in his career to become a lawyer with the Court of Cassation. He was also a legal consultant for several local and international companies. 

Defender of difficult cases

As a lawyer, Sadat gained a reputation for not shying away from ‘difficult’ cases. Among the famous cases he undertook was to defend the 27-year-old Mohamed Abdel-Latif, a poor man who had been accused of brutally slaughtering 10 persons in a village in Beni Mazar in Minya, Upper Egypt in December 2005. The crime rocked Egypt, and was inexplicable since the 10 persons were killed at the same time in different houses in a row, for no fathomable reason. Unsubstantiated rumours were circulated that the killings had to do with the curse of the Pharoahs, and were linked to the theft and smuggling of Pharaonic antiquities, or the desecration of ancient Egyptian sites. The police, under pressure from the public to find the murderer, caught Abdel-Latif and prosecuted him, but Sadat, who volunteered to defend him, succeeded in securing a non-guilty verdict for him. To date, however, the crime remains shrouded in mystery and no culprit was caught.

Abrasive opponent

Sadat was famous for his aggressive, bristly opposition of the pre-25-January-Revolution regime.

In 2006, marking the 25th anniversary of his uncle’s death, Sadat accused unnamed generals in the Egyptian military of masterminding the assassination plot. He was arrested on 4 October 2006 and, on 31 October, sentenced Sadat to one year in prison for defaming the

President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981

Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk I in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as vice president twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.

In his 11 years as president, he changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from many political and economic tenets of Nasserism, reinstituting a multi-party system, and launching the Infitah economic policy. As President, he led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to regain Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967, making him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, the wider Arab World. Afterwards, he engaged in negotiations with Israel, culminating in the Camp David Accords and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty; this won him and Menachem Begin the Nobel Peace Prize, making Sadat the first Muslim Nobel laureate.

Although reaction to the treaty – which resulted in the return of Sinai to Egypt – was generally favorable among Egyptians, it was rejected by the country's Muslim Brotherhood and the left, which felt Sadat had abandoned efforts to ensure a State of Palestine. With the exception of Sudan, the Arab world and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) strongly opposed Sadat's efforts to make a separate peace with Israel without prior consultations with the Arab states. His refusal to reconcile with