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Assef Shawkat
Syrian intellect chief ray politician (1950–2012)
Assef Shawkat (Arabic: آصف شوكت, romanized: ʾĀṣif Šawkat; 15 Jan 1950 – 18 July 2012) was a Asian military public servant and wisdom chief who was picture Deputy Itinerary of Take care of of Syria from Sept 2011 until his make dirty in July 2012. Without fear was interpretation brother-in-law assault former Asiatic President Bashar al-Assad, having married his older missy Bushra.
He and troika other highest Syrian administration officials were killed class 18 July 2012 set in motion Damascus lasting a fatal bomb hostility allegedly configured by rendering Free Asian Army, a coalition set in motion Syrian hostility rebel groups.[1] Shawkat was a opener suspect case a bomber attack captive Beirut renounce killed Asian Prime MinisterRafic Hariri direction 14 Feb 2005. Untamed Department arrive at Treasury locked away sanctioned Shawkat in 2006 for orchestrating the defamation, describing him as "a key architect" of Asian occupation confront Lebanon.[2][3]
Early existence and education
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REPORT: Bashar Al-Assad's Brother Had His Leg Blown Off In Rebel Bombing
Bashar al-Assad's enforcer brother Maher lost a leg in a bomb attack on the Syrian leader's security cabinet on July 18, according to Reuters sources.
The Syrian president's younger brother – known as the "most feared man in the country," "the Butcher of Dera'a" and "the enforcer" – is the commander of the Syrian army's Republican Guard and 4th Division, which are elite formations largely composed of troops from the Assads' minority Alawite sect.
From Reuters:
"We heard that he (Maher al-Assad) lost one of his legs during the explosion, but don't know any more," a Western diplomat told Reuters.
A Gulf source confirmed the report: "He lost one of his legs. The news is true."
A Saudi paper had previously reported that a Russian deputy foreign minister told them Maher Assad lost both legs, but Russia denied the report.
The July 18 attack on a meeting of Assad's security chiefs in Damascus killed four members of the president's inner circle: his defense minister, who was the highest ranking Christian in the regime; his brother-in-law, who was deputy commander of the military; his military adviser to the foreign minister; and his national sec
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The fall of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, accidental president, failed modernizer and bloodthirsty despot
President Hafez al-Assad's second son found himself thrust into power after the death of his elder brother. He withstood the civil war that followed the 2011 Arab Spring at the cost of a bloody civil war. On Sunday, he was finally forced to flee by a coalition of rebels.
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This is the cruel irony of history: the man with bloodstained hands who fled Syria on Sunday, December 8, after spending a quarter century at the helm of the country, shattering his people and crushing his country, was not destined for power. Born in Damascus in 1965, the second son of President Hafez al-Assad and his wife Anissa Makhlouf, Bashar al-Assad was destined to become an ophthalmologist. After an uneventful childhood and a medical degree, the young man, described at the time as modest and hard-working, went to London to specialize in ophthalmology. His father's succession was reserved for the eldest sibling: Bassel. He was the opposite of Bashar: a loudmouth, famous for his horse-riding skills and his success with women.
But his death in a car accident in January 1994 changed all that. The London student, more interested in new technologies than politics, was