Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:47:35 am
A report is circulating through Arab media that the “right hand man” of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has been assassinated.
BEIRUT (AFP) - Arab media reported on Sunday that a brigadier general thought to be the Syrian regime’s liaison with Hezbollah in Lebanon has been assassinated. ...
The Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat on Sunday quoted “informed sources” in London as saying that a senior Syrian officer had been found dead. “The circumstances of the incident are not clear,” the London-based paper said in its report, which said the sources suggested that the slain officer had been “in charge of sensitive files and closely linked to the Syrian top brass.”
Al-Bawaba, an Arab news website, named the officer as Mohammed Suleiman and said he was “Syria’s liaison officer with Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement.” It said he was killed by a sniper in the northwest Syrian town of Tartus and would be buried in his hometown of Driekesh on Sunday.
The Lebanese anti-Syrian daily al-Mustaqbal quoted a Syrian news site as saying Suleiman was the head of security at the presidential palace in Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad’s “right-hand man.”