The World : 3 Sadat Assassins Escape
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Three former army officers convicted in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat overpowered their guards, seized rifles and shot their way out of a maximum security prison near Cairo, police said. Interior Minister Zaki Badr placed airports and harbors on alert as part of an intense manhunt for the escapees, members of a Muslim fundamentalist organization known as Jihad, or Holy War. The three--identified as Mohammed Khames, 40, Esam Kemary, 37, and Ahmed Aswani, 31--were among 17 Jihad members given sentences ranging up to life imprisonment for involvement in the assassination. Five others were executed for the crime.
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