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Syrian President's Top Aide Assassinated
ArutzSheva ^ | August 3, 2008 | Hana Levi Julian

Posted on 08/03/2008 12:31:31 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy

(IsraelNN.com) Syrian President Bashar Assad's top aide and adviser, General Mohammed Suleiman, was assassinated on Friday, according to Arab news sources.

Suleiman, who was also Syria's liaison officer to the Hizbullah terrorist organization in Lebanon, was shot and killed by an unidentified sniper in the Syrian port city of Tartous.

Syrian authorities tried unsuccessfully to prevent publication of the news. The country's Albawaba newspaper, which reported the incident, speculated that Israel might have been behind the killing.

Both Albawaba and the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper raised the issue of last February's assassination of Hizbullah second-in-command Imad Mughniyeh, who died in a car bombing in Damascus. Syria blamed Israel for the killing, but Jerusalem denied any involvement.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassination; cia; globaljihad; hezbollah; hizballah; hizbullah; islam; israel; lebanon; mohammedanism; mohammedsuleiman; mossad; mughniyah; mughniyeh; nsa; suleiman; syria; wot
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To: ScaniaBoy

Bumping the thread.


101 posted on 08/03/2008 8:10:45 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( I'm a carbon based human being, a Carbonated-American)
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To: jveritas

Strange things happen there.


102 posted on 08/03/2008 9:03:14 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (A fawning US press and the anti-Bush mobs of Europe cannot be wrong about Obama, can they?)
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To: rdl6989; Enchante; Southack; Allan; Perdogg; SJackson; Alouette; jveritas; 1COUNTER-MORTER-68; ...
UPDATE:

Murder of Assad's Advisor Puts Syria in 'Bad Condition'

(IsraelNN.com) Mohammed Suleiman, the senior advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and liason officer to Hizbullah who was assassinated by a sniper over the weekend, was even stronger than Syria's defense minister, according to a source quoted in London-based Arabic-language newspaper ash-Sharq il-Awsat. According to the source, his death has left the Syrian regime "in a bad and complicated condition."

Suleiman, a member of the Alawites sect and close friend of al-Assad's deceased brother and former heir to the throne Bassel, was responsible for all of Syria's sensitive security issues, according to the source, as well as for economic and armament issues.

103 posted on 08/04/2008 10:45:56 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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"was responsible for all of Syria's sensitive security issues, according to the source, as well as for economic and armament issues"

That's what I've heard, that this guy was pretty much the #1 man in the regime for key issues. Assad is a figurehead, or was, if this is his way of asserting control. Whoever is responsible, it sure will make things lively in Syria for quite awhile to come. May they all kill each other off in that loathsome regime!!! or if it's Hizbullah behind the deed, let the Syrians and Hizu-Nazis kill each other off quick.

104 posted on 08/04/2008 11:33:21 AM PDT by Enchante
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To: ScaniaBoy

Payback’s a bitch.


105 posted on 08/04/2008 11:35:40 AM PDT by steve8714 (Curtis Strange ruined a man better than himself.)
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To: LjubivojeRadosavljevic

Don’t really care who pulled the trigger, though I do want them as a posterboy for “Gun Control: One Shot, One Hit - That’s real gun control!”

The bastard is dead. Good enough for me!!


106 posted on 08/04/2008 5:29:18 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ScaniaBoy

There are lot of troubles within the terrorist regime in Syria.


107 posted on 08/04/2008 5:54:03 PM PDT by jveritas (God Bless President Bush and our brave troops)
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To: airborne

Nice pic!


108 posted on 08/04/2008 8:31:55 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Between Barack and a hard place...)
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To: jhpigott

carrot and stick?


109 posted on 08/04/2008 11:59:11 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: jeffers

probably

sticks getting increasingly bigger . . . Imad, then Assad’s right hand man . . . who’s next


110 posted on 08/05/2008 5:04:26 AM PDT by jhpigott
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To: ScaniaBoy

Seek Long War Journal


111 posted on 08/05/2008 11:19:34 AM PDT by Wiz (Here comes my smokin' gun)
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To: jhpigott

Hizballah affiliation seems to be a rule.

No need for a ground war, Israel already seems to occupy Syria, operating at will.

Tempo could increase, decrease or stay the same.


112 posted on 08/05/2008 1:34:16 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: jeffers

will see if Hezbollah and Syria get the message . . . it’s pretty obvious Israel doesn’t want Hezbollah setting up this new anti-air defense network - maybe Syria won’t deliver the goods - not holding my breathe


113 posted on 08/06/2008 4:51:25 AM PDT by jhpigott
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To: SatinDoll
>>>Hey, is that Mookie down there in the front row, center bottom of picture?<<<

That is what I thought looking at it first time - sure is a "dead ringer" (sorry for the freudian slip) if it isn't him.

I'll hoist a beer when someone puts a 9mm in his temple.

114 posted on 08/06/2008 2:14:26 PM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out O)
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