A confessed Egyptian secret service agent, Adnan Shaker Sultani, who assassinated a key Lebanese publisher during the rule of the late Jamal Abdel-Nasser, has died at the age of 58.
Sultani’s passing was announced Thursday by the Nasserite party, Al Ittihad, which did not disclose the cause of death or say where he died, said the Daily Star, citing a party statement.
As a young man, Sultani was convicted of the murder of Kamel Mrowa, the founder of the Al Hayat and Daily Star media group, on May 16, 1966.
At the time of his arrest, Sultani admitted he had received his orders to assassinate Mrowa, father of Daily Star publisher and editor-in-chief Jamil K. Mroue, from Egyptian intelligence.
He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. But after several years in Beirut’s Al Raml prison, Sultani escaped with other inmates shortly after the start of the civil war in 1975 – Albawaba.com
