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Report: U.K. police increasingly suspect Mossad spy murdered

By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent

Evidence brought by a new witness has increased British police's suspicions that an Egyptian spy for the Mossad did not fall to his death in June but was in fact murdered, The Times reported on Wednesday.

London police are set to interview the witness, who claims to have seen two men on the balcony of Dr. Ashraf Marwan's apartment in the moments after he fell to his death.

The body of Marwan, 62, who warned Israel ahead of the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, was found on the sidewalk near his apartment in London.

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The Times reported that the witness said the men, wearing suits and of Mediterranean appearance, peered over the balcony at his body before disappearing inside the apartment.

London's Metropolitan police admitted, however, that Marwan's shoes - an essential piece of evidence - have disappeared and are feared to be destroyed.

The shoes would have helped prove whether the Mossad agent had fallen off his balcony and had stepped on something before doing so, or was thrown off it by someone else.

A well-to-do businessman, Marwan had lived in London since the late 1970s. He was married to the daughter of the late Egyptian President Gamal Abd Nasser, and former political and security adviser to President Sadat.

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1.	Maybe this Marwan killed Nasser, however I don`t care	12:42	\|	Tamir Palestine	29/08/07

2.	All the spies know the risks	13:42	\|	El_Justiciero	29/08/07

3.	#1 Tamir - What are you mumbling about??	16:36	\|	* BEN JABO	29/08/07

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