With protesters in Egypt trying to force President Mubarak to resign, here is the
piece that Roger Cooper wrote for The Spectator on the event that propelled him to power: the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981:
The legacy of Sadat, Roger Cooper, The Spectator, 10 Oct 1981
Rarely has a political assassination set off such divergent reactions as that of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on Tuesday. President Reagan called it ‘outrageous and tragic’, the
Pope praised him for ‘his noble vision of reconciliation’, and the Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin, expressed deep regret at the death of ‘a great leader’. But
there was jubilation in Syria, Libya and Iran, while the Soviet Union coldly ascribed the killing to ‘Egyptian opposition to Sadat’s policies’.
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