Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Is Not Assainated - What Changes?

[SlickWilly]

The recent and ongoing protests in Egypt set my mind thinking about this one. Would Egypt today be less of a dictatorship as it is effectively under Mubarak? What would the state of Egypt-Israel relations be? and how worried is the Zionist state about current events in Egypt? they most certainly wouldn't want an unstable or a fundamentalist Egypt for sure! Also the Muslim Brotherhood were strongly implicated in taking out Sadat and it has become a focus for state oppression now, so where would it be today without Sadat's bloody demise? Indeed would Mubarak have emerged at all as the successor after a longer Sadat reign?

[RogueBeaver]

Sadat wouldn't be that different than Mubarak, but as a civilian rather than a career officer he might not involve the military as much in the economy. Depends when he steps down- he was 63 in 1981, so theoretically he could still be around by 2000. No idea what his succession plans were- Mubarak was VP but again, depends how long Sadat lives.

[SlickWilly]

Mubarak was injured in that assassination, so we in our what if world could have him killed instead with Sadat receiving the hand wound. Sadat did have heart problems , so unfortunately he might not have survived much longer than 1981!
BTW I will spell 'Assassinated' correctly in future!

[RogueBeaver]

No idea then. Maybe his son?