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(February 22, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) “The warning of the State intelligence, spoke of a possible assault on a leader or leaders of the Government when they attended the military parade held outside the parliament complex at Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte. It was to take the form of an incident similar to the one in which Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was killed in 1981 when soldiers at a military parade got down from their vehicles and started shooting at the VVIP dais,” the Sunday Times, a weekly newspaper based in Colombo reported today.

Here is the Sunday Times’s report’,

The talking point in a section of the National Unity Government this week was an intelligence warning President Maithripala Sirisena received ahead of the National Day celebrations on February 4.

Though sketchy, the warning spoke of a possible assault on a leader or leaders of the Government when they attended the military parade held outside the parliament complex at Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte. It was to take the form of an incident similar to the one in which Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was killed in 1981 when soldiers at a military parade got down from their vehicles and started shooting at the VVIP dais.

Defence Secretary B.M.U.D. Basnayake who received the intelligence warning apprised President Sirisena and chaired meetings to plan counter measures. “Immediate precautionary measures were taken to ensure nothing untoward happened,” said a Government source privy to the warning and the events that followed. The warning, however, did not say who the exact target or targets were and from which specific quarter the threat emanated.

The source declined to elaborate except to say that the information “appeared credible.” Even ahead of the warning of such a surprise attack on Government dignitaries, President Sirisena had sought to have a ceremony to mark the 67th anniversary of independence on a low key. He felt there was no need to display neither the many weapons the military had acquired nor a fly past of fighter jets. He also did not wish the participation of hundreds of schoolchildren. The previous Government had formulated elaborate plans for the celebrations to be held in Weeraketiya, the home ground of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The new venue was chosen by Sirisena.

On October 17, 1981, Egypt was holding an annual victory parade to celebrate Operation Badr (1973), the surprise attack on Israel by Egyptian troops crossing the Suez Canal and taking back the Sinai Peninsula during the Yom Kippur War. The tide in the war later turned in Israel’s favour after the United States airlifted weapons. Egypt and Israel thereafter reached a settlement viewed as a victory for President Sadat. He was viewing a flypast of French built Mirage jet fighters as they soared above Cairo. Several soldiers jumped off from the trucks they were travelling in, moved towards the reviewing stands, opened fire and hurled grenades. Sadat was dead upon admission to hospital.

Here is an video account on how they killed the President Anwar Sadat;