or Khaled Islambouli
born 1958, near Al-Minyā, Egypt
died April 15, 1982, Egypt
Egyptian radical, assassin of Anwar el-Sādāt .
Born into a family of rural notables, he attended Egypt's military academy and was assigned to the artillery corps as a lieutenant. Furious at the arrest of his brother, a leader of the Islamist opposition to Sādāt, he joined the radical Islamic Jihad Group (Jamāʽat al-Jihād al-Islāmī), and, along with a group of accomplices, assassinated Sādāt during a parade in 1981. He was executed following a public trial.