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Mohammed Asraf Abu al-Wafa-Marwan, [1] known as Ashraf Marwan (Arabic: أشرف مروان 2 February 1944 – 27 June 2007), was an Egyptian official who worked as a spy for the Israeli Mossad. From 1969 on, Marwan worked at the Presidential Office, first under Gamal Abdel Nasser and then as a close aide to his successor, Anwar Sadat .
On September 3, 1973, Ashraf Marwan meets Arab terrorists outside Rome International Airport, with a missile launcher that he smuggled into Italy in his suitcase. He tells the terrorists that he must leave immediately, as he is an Egyptian diplomat who cannot be discovered at the place of the attack, while the insurgents aim the launcher at a ...
[19] [20] Following his removal from office in 1971 Ashraf Marwan who was the son-in-law of Nasser and an intelligence officer working under Sharaf, was given the task of coordinating the intelligence affairs. [20] As of 2011 Sharaf was part of the Egyptian Committee at the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization. [21]
Ashraf Marwan Marwan (left), the billionaire Egyptian son-in-law of the late Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser, fell to his death in June 2007 from the balcony of his flat on the fifth floor ...
During the night of 5/6 October, Zvi Zamir went to Europe to meet personally with Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian double agent working for Mossad. Marwan informed Zamir that a joint Egyptian-Syrian attack was imminent. Combined with other warnings and incidents, Marwan's warning finally convinced Zvi Zamir of the imminence of war.
Between May and August 1973, the Egyptian Army conducted military exercises near the border, and Ashraf Marwan inaccurately warned that Egypt and Syria would launch a surprise attack in the middle of May. The Israeli Army mobilized with their Blue-White Alert, in response to both the warnings and exercises, at considerable cost.
Ashraf Marwan, 62, Egyptian son-in-law of former President Nasser, alleged double agent. [227] Emilio Ochoa, 99, Cuban who was last living signatory of the 1940 Constitution, cardiac arrest. [228] Ruslan Odizhev, 33, Russian former Guantanamo Bay detainee, shot by police. [229] Silas Rhodes, 91, American educator, founder of the School of ...
Dr. Ashraf Marwan, who had been accused of being a senior Mossad agent operating in Egypt prior to the Yom Kippur War, is found dead below the balcony of his home in London; Scotland Yard investigates the "unexplained" death. , At least ten people drown and thousands move to higher ground as a cyclone hits Balochistan, Pakistan.