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A much bigger conspiracy to get rid of sadat than actually was in 1981
many top military officals involved trying to bring a radical moslem state into existence as the shiites did in iran just recently

after assasination , many units of the army in a pre-planned move attack the army and airforce head quarters and try to assasinate other top generals
But the loyalists fight back and the country is involved in a civil war ...
Isreal seeing that a radical moslem egypt will be a nightmare offers to fly in assistence to the loyalists, isreali army is on high alert but the egyptian armed forces implode as the rebel units and the moslem militias backed a certain amount of popular support proved a very tenacious foe.Libya and Syria seeing their chance to overthrow the pro-western egyptian govt. help the radicals ( despite their abhorence of islamic radicals at home) with the backing of USSR who has a score to settle with the present egyptian govt.
Rebels will likely get hold of only the lighter arms and maybe some armored units and artillery. Airforce I think will still be largely loyal to the govt apart from individual pilots who may defect having to face the prospect of firing on their fellow moslems.No doubt the rebels will be supplied by a huge amount of arms via soviet client states, large number of them SAMs to deal with EAF.
What is the likely outcome? will the loyalists gain control or a revolution?
Soviet and their clients will not want the rebels to have a decisive advantage either and would likely just give them enough supplies to prolong attrition and the civil war
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