Mubarak: ‘I Started The Yom Kippur War’ -- Times of Israel
In new recordings, former Egyptian president and air force chief says he attacked an Israeli position six minutes before the Arab armies’ surprise October 1973 attack began
Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak says he personally started the Yom Kippur War in October, 1973, by attacking an Israeli communications base in his fighter jet six minutes before the rest of the Arab armies’ surprise attack on the Jewish state began.
In most accounts, the war began at 2:00 pm on October 6, when at least 200 Egyptian fighter planes simultaneously hit three Israeli airbases, Israel’s missile batteries, command centers, numerous artillery positions, and radar installations, to devastating effect.
Mubarak, who was the Egyptian Air Force commander at the time, said only three other people knew of his mission, including former president Anwar Sadat.
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Update: Mubarak fired the first shots of the Yom Kippur war -- The Telegraph
My Comment: I am surprised that as an Air Force commander he would be in the middle of a fight. If anything .... he should have been in his bunker monitoring the progress of the battle. As it is .... no one can support or deny his claim.
