August 4, 2008
AIM HIGHER:
Top Syria official 'assassinated' (BBC, 8/04/08)
A senior military official close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been assassinated, according to Arab media reports.The official, identified as Brig Gen Mohammed Suleiman, was shot dead on Friday night at a beach resort near the port city of Tartus, the reports say. [...]
Another website, run by a member of President Assad's ruling Baath Party, Ayman Abdul Nour, said Mr Suleiman was shot on Friday night at his beach house.
A sniper on a yacht was behind the attack, according to the website of former regime figure and now exiled dissident Abdul Halim Khaddam. [...]
It is the first assassination in Syria since February, when Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh was killed in a car bomb explosion in the capital, Damascus.
Baby not bathwater.
we have gone 001 days without an asassination
Posted by: EPT at August 4, 2008 9:44 PM
Now I've got Queen as an earworm: "Another one bites the dust, another one bites the dust, . . ."
Posted by: Mike Morley at August 4, 2008 10:49 AM