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Friday, December 17, 2010

New Israeli Book on Ashraf Marwan Case

We've touched on the Ashraf Marwan story several times: Egyptian public figure and businessman, head of Egypt's defense industry for many years, son-in-law of Nasser, and long rumored to have been a Mossad informant who provided the crucial tip in the 1973 war, and then died in a mysterious fall from his London balcony in 2007. This past summer, a British inquest ruled out suicide but also said there was no evidence he was murdered. His widow Mona Nasser blames Israel for his death.

NOw there's a new book by an Israeli academic which concludes that he was not a double agent and blames Egypt rather than Israel for his mysterious death. Since the book is in Hebrew I can't judge it, and perhaps it's disinformation, but the linked Ha'aretz article adds to the confusion over Marwan.

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