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us off mall, one was an egyptian millionaire, businessman living in an up market london apartment, married to the daughter of former egyptian president gumble of danasia. he appeared to have everything to live for my one was also a man of sequence. it's known that he spied for israel, but he may also have been a double agent loyal to egypt. such questions came to an abrupt end, when on a summer afternoon in june, 2007, his body was found in the garden of the building where he lives. did my one fall from his 5th floor balcony? did he jump? or was he pushed the? ah, a book written by

a former director of israeli intelligence at the time of the 1973 out of israeli war refers to a secret agent supplying high level information to israel. the claim was that this operative was working deep inside the government of egypt. president said that it was alleged that this by fan to be is really crucial information about egypt plans for military engagement with israel. it's also claimed really sensitive information about russian art supplies, things with egypt. the many believe that ashcroft more one was this agent perpetuating a mystery that is still unresolved. he remains celebrated as a loyal intelligence agent by both israel and egypt. i will have allison to about that the 3rd week and into the middle of the last day that

a school is well and can to help us out on adams. so i'm a failure to maria and said that it may have my limit. lemme and there was not much, not a one of them at risk, len tech at the 11th and imbedded, keep them a please. she is put a lot of thought. don't let me get you connected. well, i think about what one can. i mean, i can, i'm in ms dugan for a young call. listen. been here. the most controversial moment of ash off mall. one's life as a spy, came in october 1973. when it's alleged. he tipped off israel about an eminent

attack by egyptian forces. a series of clandestine meetings and phone calls involving prearranged code words warned to israel that the 1973 out of israeli war was just hours away. this coincided with a jewish day of atonement, young can poor. when much of israel was closed for the holiday, intel of eve, the government faced a decision 6 months. anna marwan had given a similar alert, but the predicted attack did not come. there was also some confusion over the time of the attack, whether it would come by day or night. i don't to lay to watch them or not convincing enough to leave ease, to mobilize, it's, it's reserve forces. bending mind isn't always at the start to g. the

coast groups of the one that need to hold any supplies attack fully on 48 to 72. our analysts agree that more one did indeed allow israel is about the stone wall. it's also clear that he's predicted time was out by a few hours. was this simply a mistake or a deliver attack? to roam foot is really military. i think this is as i heart of why there speculation about him being an egyptian double agent. because if he said this information and it was wrong, even just marginally will, it still gave you a huge advantage. you know, they were able to cross the serious can. they were able to regain some of the finite needs either. so i think can it's interesting, it could well have been that he didn't have entirely the right time and it was an

innocent mistake and he was just trying to help these raise. but i think also it does cost a very interesting life. actually, him potentially still being an egyptian double agent with both sides, claiming i shot my one as a hero who would want him dead? it's possible that which ever country he was really betraying, may have exacted revenge. again, there are theories, but little hard evidence. what makes sense doesn't necessarily happens in the story, but if this is the case that he was killed by someone, there is more than one candidate to do that. so he said it's the massage, the not for with some of his enemies in egypt. so what has egypt got to say in response to israeli sources who claim my one as one of their agents, was his desk, an act of revenge in response to his legs. betrayal of egypt national secrets

over too much say on a 100 or less a ton of the matter much. well, by then i'll show one on your mac hotel a piano. but when you go to london, your teacher sort of marshal, went on and you can call it you the value to work. awesome. what about a senate by one of the of a n and new i've been with while of she lives in the 3 i started by and one can you learn with them? let them know what to bad licorice. the metal at them. i was i a small one was murdered, and that's by no means certain. could those responsible have been linked with his business dealings? following the october 1973 was egyptian president saddam pointed ash off my one as

a presidential international representative. in march 1974, i decree appointed more one to this high profile hall, i placed the newly appointed emissary in the same sphere as leaders of other powerful arab countries. at this point, it's likely that my one entered and lucrative and at times murky world of military weapons procurement. by them of a sofa, and most of them has eat article feed, the queen total means and a dollar will be electric. and if you're talking to me, you have a daughter who are local to local these on a 981 more, one left egypt and started

a new life in london. heathrow arrived in london's corporate business having already forged high level connections in the middle east. he made new business relationships with prominent figures, including the late tiny roland, a controversial high profile business figure. roland was connected with a company called tradewinds with an international footprint. more one also maintained his contact in the middle east, including with um i got off on down cousin and close confident of the van libyan leader. my godaddy. the idea of trade winds was a private cargo company, which would with rowlands input transport throughout the middle east and africa goods and services that modeling for the introduced including weapons. and the trade winds company was supposed to be shepherding

weapons around africa, the libyans, and everybody else can beth allen. and as i mean, leave can be raised and that i wonder what kind of island might affect. well, hopefully you feel of the bargain though i get off about in the market. ask about that where i'm and could it be that more one's desk was connected to his dealings in the international arms trade show my law and policy must get. she left a level the and got an amendment and she had to convey your motive. dizzy to him, used to feed, to watch me, which is a mother present the gora mac cross cut of his fossil offer. and he sort of said much more money. can i read that? is that can i get kind of out of tune natasha.

yes. the 2nd move in. if the player minute do i, let me tell it what kind of mobile i have do up here on my can i have blowing them, jot them up and off and on. i mean, my one's business dealings in london were complex. he bought and sold commercial property and invested in several high profile british companies across a wide range of sectors. he also had a stake and a leading london football club. i met a shop now and probably 7 or 8 times. most of those times were in the late eighty's late 98 case. i'd been introduced to him by connie roland, point mo, on for me,

the interest for me at the time was that he had been buying shares, takes in a loss of precious companies. he suddenly appeared from nowhere and he was dying strategic steaks, 15 percent, 30 percent. and nobody knew who was well throughout the 19 eighties and much from then on. my one was very active as a businessman in london, he had a huge number of properties and investments. he was a major investor in chelsea football cup and was invoked and medicaid deals with handling companies of in the u. k. in the early 19 eighties, more one was on the fringes of a high profile, feared between his friend tiny roland and the egyptian businessman mohammed and fired.

the 2 are battling for control of house of fraser. the company that then owned the luxury in london. the pop in store harris fired sir milan because of my one's connection with the government in egypt and fired was a legit and his connections throughout the middle east and a propensity for my one to do great harm than the opinion of fight. and i was surely wish to do, said mom it, i'll fire her private detective following a shelf mo, one and tiny row and all the time they were la, my one enrolled into like partnership and they. busy were following my wanna enrollment, meanwhile, roland and mo and have their own team with trucks, texas following else. and so everywhere they went to london around the

world of things and private texas, following each other in the end, the feud between the 2 tie tunes reached its own natural conclusion. i think the feud the, the tiny roland field ended with tanya rose, death tiro, and died quite a while ago of natural causes. he had a cancer, i think, and he died. and i saw a lot of fires around the time of diana's death. and dodie death. i never heard fire till the mon. i think my wife had become a rather forgotten figure. rather lonely figure. he didn't have the same power. happy saw. in his later years, friends recalled a tall man, nearly 2 meters immaculately dressed, with

a mysterious air journalist spoke of his charm, but added that he gave little away. william allan was a man that turn left high on promises. he took many, many fees and disappointed. a lot of people and the one of his business deals could have gone wrong or he took money off people, he should not have done. and there was an aspect of revenge. returning to wash off mar ones, final hours they were spent in his luxury apartment in central london while one lived in a very expensive and luxurious apartment building cotton terrace carlton house, terrorist as the london home for the british foreign secretary. and at the bottom of that, as the admiralty arch, which is an enormous flat, which is held by people in high position and government, or deputy prime ministers. given his background,

those who followed the case closely are convinced that he was being monitored by british intelligence. my wife was very well known to the intelligence services because i had a very good reason to keep an eye on him because he was into the varied in the body politic and the whole of the middle east. while he was domiciled in london. and why wouldn't they keep an eye on him because it was in their interest to do so? cause now it has nothing to come from feed can walk up build. can you drop a total cost more often for our work about a medical model could work about if you had said you'll come fidel. good luck from the fact that the cctv cameras were not working that day. certainly hampered any search for truth or closure. the issue of the cctv has also been a subject of debate in the u. k. we have a huge number of these very,

very high number of cctv coverage. most people assume that every cctv camera is on 247. so if you take this into, into context with the other issues, the fact that we are told that the 50 tv was not recording, i would say, raises questions. another question which may give clues as to what happened on the june afternoon, is about my one's physical and mental health of my on fi. my shift from ice bridge maddox to wish the michelle and the total shipment on behalf of 11th all with the her in the mac can value. and then mesh imposter. l bessler was highly assigned to the haunted him unless he let me know if he was

indeed in such poor health. what he has been physically capable of throwing himself from a balcony in the context of this matter. it's very odd because you have a man at 63 old man who apparently has the neuropathy of his feet and cannot and going to boston unassisted. if you take that in conjunction with a high balcony for 63 year old male with pain in his feet. how did he access the balcony? and how did he come to go over the balcony? in the go with liam. no one can go get this. i will be collecting them. i should have the quantity on the ship almost. there's another question, one which some sources dispute. it's being claimed that i shall,

more one was waiting a tell all book. a memoir that is adversaries may have preferred not to see published on the topic of missing evidence. there is also of cause a lot of questions about adopt tomorrow. and having started writing his memoirs and audio tapes accompanying those mom was this would have been the full story of his life and who it worked for babson. it was a 340 and work with 300 pages or something like that. apparently substantial piece of writing that he'd be doing as well as some tapes in which he'd dictated what he'd written. now, nobody actually saw this man was nobody heard the tapes, but apparently they existed. they were on the shelf in his apartment. when the police arrived t cord not seen and went through his belongings,

they were missing. so the question arises, what they removed, did the police missed them? or did the police lose them? ah, the matter of the alleged missing memoirs is a question the don't just 0 wanted to put to london's metropolitan police who investigated the case. however, they declined the request to appear in this program. ah, in those days, the london place were a branch of the conservative party. and it's not the same now, but when you have a high profile, dis adam pinched on the government, then lea, a metropolitan place would do their best to cover things up and manipulate. the same mouth new were witnesses to mar ones full from the 5th floor. balcony. 4 men were meeting at an adjacent building. by coincidence,

they worked for one of the victims companies. i'm expecting to meet their boss later in the day. one witness joseph surpasses, says he saw dr. mar one phone. later he claimed to have seen 2 men of middle eastern appearance looking from a balcony, but could not confirm that this balcony was out. mar ones, dress ah, i'll just 0 rope to mister re policy unto another witness. shockey. however, neither man, ah, so what is known of the 2 men said to be of middle eastern appearance. apparently that's just what's being reported. and the 2nd wave of investigation, it was important that they didn't know who they were, but the names being kept the secret. so you know this,

you see very much in the bushes intelligence establishment cover up around this case, which is suspicious in itself. however, any criticism of the police investigation must be seen in the context of the outcome of the coroner's inquest. it declared what's called an open verdict, the legal time for a dash that is suspicious, but unexplained. if they knew, for instance, who may have had a reason tacoma on, and that did not see the body politic to explore at much further than they would cover it up. and they were covered up for 2 reasons. in my opinion, firstly, that would have done the british government. no good. a man like my one who was no longer around. well, that could be thought to be at the pages he's gone. he said no use to us. he says no harm to us anymore. let's not rock the boat. the 2nd same as

a turbulence in the middle east, such as bad enough. anyway, you don't want to start an investigation meant to find. perhaps one of your allies may have had a hand and the and the murder of a protagonist. in a bed investigation, but good politics. ah, the life and death of ash off mar, one has all the plot twists of a gripping spice story. one reason why he's been the subject of several books, tv, documentaries, and dramas. the truth of his life is in every sense, stranger than fiction. his marriage to the teenage daughter of the addiction president gamma loved another. his later relationship with nasa successive anwar sadat, his move to london, and the phone call to the israeli embassy offering his services. despite his role

in the 1973 arab israeli war, did he tip off israel to give them a military advantage or deliberately pass on flowed information to help egypt? spy, on trader international wheeler, dealer in london, accumulating vast wealth. and in june 2007, his unexplained death. as with all spies stories, the lines between truth lies fact and fiction. and never quite what they seen me. ah.

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the things are slightly cooler. we've got a southern breeze kicking along the coast of yemen, an oman, and that's brought temperatures down slightly. we're also expecting some showers across western areas of yemen in the mountainous areas, as well as part of saudi arabia. but for heavy showers, we have to hop across to that central band of africa. we've had really active thunderstorms across this area. we seen flash flooding in sudan. we could see some of that in south sudan where those rains are going to for heavily, as well as chad the central african republic on part of the demo, democratic republic of congo. now for the south of this, it is a lot hotter and dryer. within temperatures slightly above average of 4 namibia and full botswana before south africa, things are looking slightly cooler and it's going to be cloudy in cape town. this weekend the the u. s. has withdrawn the majority of its troops from america's longest war,

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