Posted on 08/03/2008 2:02:14 PM PDT by Perdogg
DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report that Gen. Muhammad Suleiman, whom a sniper shot dead in the Syrian port town of Tartus early Saturday, Aug. 2, was a shadowy figure who acted for Bashar Assad in the regime’s four most sensitive and confidential spheres:
1. He was the president’s liaison man with the North Korean government. On his frequent trips to Pyongyang, Gen. Suleiman organized the consignment of components for the plutonium reactor in northern Syria, which Israeli demolished last September, and the security of the North Korean scientists and technicians who accompanied them.
2. Muhammad Suleiman was also the president’s private channel of communication with Iranian military and intelligence chiefs; in this capacity, he most probably facilitated the Syrian-Iranian-North Korean connection. The Syrian reactor was designed to produce nuclear fuel for the Iranian program and radioactive weapons for Syria.
3. The late general also acted as the president’s contact man with Hizballah’s leaders. He worked directly with Imad Mughniyeh, head of Hizballah’s security apparatus, who was killed in Damascus last February.
4. His key function was the management of Assad’s personal interaction with the Syrian chief of staff, generals and heads of military intelligence. There was no state secret from the powerful general. He was to have accompanied the Syrian president on his state visit to Tehran Saturday; instead he was laid to rest in his home village of Driekesh in the north.
Damascus has done its utmost to keep the general’s death under wraps, but word has spread and theories abound: Speculation ranges from an outside hand, or a jealous rival to an internal element who felt the concentration of so much power in one hand was a threat to the regime.
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Hmmmmm......interesting.
I wish I were Debka... LOL.
Maybe this guy was Israel’s inside man.
Give that sniper a cigar!
lol - he’s been fired.
Don’t matter who killed him, they’ll blame Israel. And they might be right.
And this just in:
Gen. Muhammad Suleiman was assassinated by a deadly Martian Pork Replicating Death Ray!
Debka’s man on the inside of the Pork Replicating Death Ray Assembly line on Phobos confirmed that an Israeli interplanetary cruiser picked up the finished weapon at the Martian Weapons Export Centre on Deimos last week.
Stay tuned to *DEBKAVision* for further updates!
I wonder if he was also in charge of procuring the failed Russian air defense system for Syria too. He's been erased.
Don’t matter who killed him, as long as he’s sincerely dead.
They can try running but they will just die tired.
This is extreme predjudice!
.....well like yuh.
cheaper than paying his pension.
My money’s on U.S. Special Ops-—SEALs or Delta Force.
Mousaad?
Interesting
Mossad prefers bombs or unfortunate accidents. Long-range Sniping is a hallmark of the Delta boys, SEALs, and SAS.
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