Syrian President's Top Aide Assassinated

ArutzSheva ^ | August 3, 2008 | Hana Levi Julian

[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.

[ScaniaBoy]

Hardly Israel considering that Olmert is trying to save his faltering career and legacy by making peace with (surrender to) Syria.

[clee1]

All your sniper are belong to us.

[SolidWood]

Maybe he was going to spoil Assad’s beans on Saddam’s WMDs, terrorist operations or Iranian plans?

[Southack]

Keep in mind that Hizballah was just caught in Baghdad. We captured their safe house and two field leaders.

Obviously that would yield valuable documents that would lead to other raids...

[Southack]

It’s black ops all around. Heck, it’s news that Assad’s top aide was in Tartous instead of Damascus, much less that someone knocked off that liason to Hezbollah there...

[skr]

Very interesting

[eyedigress]

Thanks for the post. Works for me.

[eyedigress]

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[TheThinker]

If it were an Israeli sniper, Syria would not bother to cover it up.

[SolidWood]

My gut (which can be wrong lol) says “inside job”.

[ScaniaBoy]

Keep in mind that Hizballah was just caught in Baghdad. We captured their safe house and two field leaders.

I have missed that very interesting piece of news. Any links?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Maybe Iran or their stooges Hezbollah is sending a message to Assad about attempting any potential peace deal with Israel.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

or this was some overdue payback for Syria’s assasination of the PM of Lebannon.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

MAC~SOG LIVES??? ...;0)

[ScaniaBoy]

Quite possible, but would they chose the contacct between Assad and Hezbollah? Interesting to follow Syrian actions after this assassination and Assad’s visit to Teheran.

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

The sources said that General Mohammed Suleiman was shot dead by a sniper in the Syrian port city of Tartous.

Mkay. So who pulled the trigger?

[ScaniaBoy]

Nasty :) You forced me to “google”:

Military Assistance Command-(Vietnam)-Studies and Observation Group

Guess it should be MAC-(Syria)-SOG these days.

[Prole]

This is what happens when men do business with Satan.

International Islamic Terrorist Organizations represent the ultimate manifestation of Satan's ideal group.

They combine the sins of violence, hatred, terror, Islam (an abomination in itself), murder and greed.

Note the Hezbollah salute is similar to the Nazi salute:

[ScaniaBoy]

I was a bit impatient. : )

I guess it was this capture you meant:

Coalition forces capture Hezbollah Brigades operative in Baghdad (July 31)