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| Son of Syria's grand mufti, professor killed in ambush near Ibla University |
| 2011-10-04 |
| [al-Arabiya] A son of Syria's Grand Mufti, Shiekh Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, has been rubbed out near Ibla University on the Idleb-Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... highway, Syria's official news agency, SANA reported. Earlier, a relative of the grand mufti told Al Arabiya that Saria Hassoun, 22, was hit by two bullets, one to his chest and another to his stomach, and that he was taken to Idleb National Hospital. Hassoun was shot outside the university while he was talking to a professor, who was also killed in the ambush, the relative said. The official news agency confirmed that an "armed terrorist group killed Professor of History at Aleppo University Dr. Mohammad al-Omar while he was on his way to the university. Dr. al-Omar was accompanied by Saria Hassoun." SANA also reported that gunnies in Homs killed the chairman of thoracic surgery at Homs National Hospital, Dr. Hassan Eid, on Sept. 25, an engineer, Aws Abdel Karim Khalil, a nuclear engineering specialist and charge d'affaires at al-Baath University, on Sept. 28, and the deputy dean of the architecture faculty, Mohammad Ali Aqil on Sept. 26. Armed dissidents have targeted a series of suspected regime informers in several cities in an outburst of violence. After more than six months of peaceful demonstrations against the rule of Bashir al-Assad, Syria appears to be going down the path of civil war. |
| Posted by:Fred |