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He was a captain in the 70's (1987 is when he became head of air-force intelligence) to 2002 and he's accused of carrying out assassinations in Syria and Lebanon, including assassinating the Lebanese PFP leader, Kamal Junblat. The Air-force intelligence also partook in the Hama massacre of 1982.
I am hoping that his trial will be fair and that no harm will befall him unless he's actually convicted.
There are others who were part of the fourth division specifically, currently hiding or fighting in Lattakia.
Thanks for pasting excerpts from Wikipedia and confirming what I said, but what exactly is your point now? How does this relate to this group being an assadist group and not alawites putting an end to the daily murders of their people?
I would appreciate if you lead with your point / argument then justify it.
Not one letter of what I "pasted" is from Wikipedia. In fact there's not an article about this guy.
Anyways my point here is that pro-Assad forces are fighting in Syria and while I don't know what the people of the Sahel think of the government, it doesn't seem like this is just them suddenly deciding to stop the "extra judicial murders" which I am sure you have plenty of proof for.
This is the result of outside influence and is relying on criminals who either do this or get dragged to court is my point. I am not saying there are no Alawites who are so dissatisfied by the new government that they'd join such movements, but there wouldn't be enough of them to cause this much trouble without some outside help.
What does pro-Assad mean? Are they coordinating with him? They wanna put him back in power? What's your proof?
Or you mean they simply like him?
It's not sudden. This isn't the first act of resistance, but this is the most organized we've seen. They have been complaining for months about these killings.
There's certainly enough alawites armed or military trained to do this. They're more military trained than any other group ever since the French occupation days.