Bumping the thread.
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.