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Syrian Defense Minister Killed By His Predator President

[1]Read in Arabic [2] / Syrian Defense Minister Gen. Ali Habib [3], who was sacked by President Bashar al-Assad [4] from his post yesterday Monday, was found dead at his home. The Syrian television stated that the death of Gen. Habib was “of natural causes” and revealed that the minister was sick and his health had recently deteriorated.

On Monday August 8 2011, President Al-Assad issued a decree appointing Gen. Dawood Rajha [5] as the new defense minister. In the evening of the Monday 8 2011, Gen. Habib was found dead in his house. The murder “decree” was probably issued in secret by President Basshar Al-Asssad  and implemented by his thugs Asef Shawkat [6] and Maher Al-Assad [7].

General Habib was a staunch opponent of the military campaign in the city of Hama. His opposition led to the postponement of the invasion of Hama by the army more than once. The General had another point of view different from that of President Al-Assad on how to manage and deal with the crisis of Syria. He was against wasting the resources, strength and morale of the army by entering the Syrian cities and “fighting” against civilians and old people, often relatives of friends of the soldiers.

Since the contradictory views between Gen. Habib and President Assad had become apparent, President Al-Assad worried that Gen. Habib, whose family from the Alawite minority is bigger than al-Assad family, could crush him and change the ruling regime in Syria. According to Syrian sources, the “death of natural causes” of Gen. Habib shocked all the Alawite sect in Syria, and the consequence will eventually be a confrontation between the Alawites near the Al-Assad clan and those near the bigger and more powerful Habib family, what will probably lead to the end of the rule of Bashar Al-Assad and his regime in Syria in any case.

My Syrian sources said whatever the Al-Assad regime revealed about the death of Gen. Habib, the truth would soon become known and that this will lead to a split in the Alawite minority in Syria.

[8]The family of President Al-Assad, whose name was originally “Bashar Al-Wahsh”, what means “predator”, has a well known history of killing their enemies and opponents. According to my Syrian sources, the deceased president Hafez Al-assad changed the name of his family from “Al-Wahsh” to “Al-Assad”, what means “Lion”, for political and military considerations by the end of the 1950s, when he carried a high rank in the Syrian military.

According the same sources, the Al-Wahsh family, which later changed their name to Al-Assad,  originates in Isfahan (contemporary Iran). Suleiman Al-Wahsh, the great-grandfather of President Hafeth Al-Assad, and his father (of unknown name) emigrated from Isfahan to Turkey, where the father died and Solaiman continued his way, together with the rest of the family, to Latakia [9]in (Arabic Al-Ladhiqiyah), the Syrian port. Here they resided in the mountains of Qardaha [10] in the northwestern of Syria.

According to what was told to me, Suleiman acquired the name of “Al-Wahsh” because he won a wrestling competition. The whole family was originally very poor and lived of the on handouts of the Syrian people, but now they own Syria.