Yousef el Sebai, editor of Egypt's daily newspaper, Al-Ahram, and a confidant and supporter of Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat, was gunned down by radical Palestinian terrorists in the lobby of the Nicosia Hilton Hotel on February 18. The gunmen claimed Sebai was killed because “he published good things about Israel.” Their self-proclaimed mission was to murder Sebai “for the liberation of Palestine.”