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Egypt marks anniversary of Yom Kippur War
By Associated Press
October 7, 1998
CAIRO — Egypt yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of its last war against Israel with a military parade reviewed by President Hosni Mubarak, who called the war a victory for peace.
The parade, conducted at an army camp near the Suez Canal town of Ismailia, was the first on the anniversary since the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat by Moslem radicals during a similar show of strength.
In yesterday’s ceremony, shown on national television, Mubarak was driven past a forest of rocket launchers, thousands of tanks, armored vehicles and artillery pieces, and naval assault boats looking incongruous on the desert sands.
Before attending the parade Mubarak told Egyptian television that the 1973 war was ’a lightning point in Egypt’s modern military history.’’
’It was a war that opened the road for peace,’ he said on the program Good Morning Egypt.
But Mubarak warned against what he called Israel’s growing arsenal, saying it constitutes ’a threat to the security of the region.’’
In Syria, the occasion was marked by Syrian war planes flying in formation low over the capital Damascus.
Suleiman Qaddah, an official in the ruling Baath party, told a rally that Syria will go on with its efforts to liberate the Golan Heights, which were captured by Israel in the 1967 Six Day war.
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