COMMEMORATI NG 6 OCTOBER: Today, Thursday 6 October, Egypt commemorates its victory in the 1973 War. Eight years after the war, on 6 October 1981, Islamist militants assassinated President Anwar El-Sadat during a military parade commemorating the battle. This week, President Hosni Mubarak placed wreathes of flowers at Sadat's tomb and the Unknown Soldier Memorial. Mubarak also placed a wreath of flowers at the tomb of late President Gamal Abdel-Nasser