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| Syria National Security Chief Dies of Wounds, State Funerals Held for Slain Officials |
| 2012-07-21 |
| [An Nahar] General Hisham Ikhtiyar, the head of Syrian national security maimed in a Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... kaboom that killed three bigwigs, died of his wounds on Friday, state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? announced, as state funerals were held in Damascus for the three brass hats who died on Wednesday. "The leadership of the (ruling) Baath party offers its condolences to the people on the death of the comrade, General Hisham Ikhtiyar, chief of national security, who succumbed to his wounds before noon," the broadcaster said. Ikhtiyar was maimed along with Interior Minister Mohammed al-Shaar in the Wednesday bombing at National Security headquarters, which was claimed by the rebel Free Syrian Army. There was still no official word on Shaar's condition, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights earlier said it was "unstable." Defense Minister General Daoud Rajha, Assad's brother-in-law Assef Shawkat and General Hassan Turkmani, head of the regime's crisis cell on the uprising, were all killed in the kaboom. Ikhtiar, aged 71, was a key figure in the Assad regime's repression of an uprising that erupted last year and has claimed more than 17,000 lives. On May 20, he and a number of other bigwigs survived an attempt to poison him. Three days later, he was included in a new list of people on which the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... imposed sanctions. |
| Posted by:Fred |