Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi laid a wreath at his late predecessor Anwar Sadat’s tomb on the anniversary of the 1973 war against the Zionist entity
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi laid a wreath at his late predecessor Anwar Sadat's tomb on the anniversary of the 1973 war against the Zionist entity on Thursday.
Mursi was accompanied by top military officials for the televised ceremony marking 39 years since the three-week conflict during Sadat's rule, called the "October 6 victo
ry" in Egypt.
Jihan al-Sadat, widow of the late president, helped organize Thursday's ceremony. "I thank President Mursi once again for this kind gesture and his consideration for Anwar Sadat. In 30 years we have seen nothing like it," she told state television.
Mursi, a senior Muslim Brotherhood figure before running for president, had published decrees honoring the memory of his predecessor and the army chief of staff at the time, and awarding medals to their families.
The Brotherhood had tense relations with Sadat's regime, which granted its leadership figures amnesties but officially banned the movement.
Sadat, vilified by many in the wider Arab world for signing the peace treaty without obtaining concessions for the Palestinians, was killed at a military parade celebrating the October 6 offensive.
