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December 21, 2010

WikiLeaks: Israel Suspected of Assassinating Syrian Official in 2008 
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A third leaked cable reveals that the U.S. embassy in Damascus suspected
that Israel was behind the 2008 assassination of a top security aide to
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. General Muhammad Suleiman was shot
dead by a sniper in the Syrian city of Tartous on August 1, 2008. At the
time, Suleiman was special presidential adviser for arms procurement and
strategic weapons.



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