VIDEO: Sadat's unrepentant killer aims for political future
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14-Apr-2011 (one comment)


Zomor, Egypt (CNN) -- Aboud el Zomor watched the revolution in Tahrir Square with envy from his jail cell on a smuggled television.

Thirty years ago, he and a group of conspirators plotted an Islamic Revolution to overthrow the Egyptian government.

On October 6 1981, four of his associates succeeded in assassinating Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in a hail of gunfire during a military parade in Cairo. Zomor, an Egyptian intelligence officer gone rogue, was convicted for his role in the murder.

Three decades later, in his first interview with a U.S. television news organization since his recent release from prison, Zomor was unapologetic about killing Sadat.

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