{"id":195003,"date":"2008-08-04T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/04\/syrian-liaison-to-hezbollah-assassinated\/"},"modified":"2008-08-04T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T22:27:00","slug":"syrian-liaison-to-hezbollah-assassinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/04\/syrian-liaison-to-hezbollah-assassinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Liaison to Hezbollah Assassinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports say that Brigadier General Mohammed Suleiman <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/World-News\/Israel-Denies-Assassinating-Syrian-General-Mohammed-Suleiman-Who-Was-Killed-By-Sniper\/Article\/200808115068689\">was shot while at his beach villa from someone in a boat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that he was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3577510,00.html\">rather more senior, and closer to Bashir Assad<\/a> than his title indicated, with reports that, &#8220;His status was even more important than that of the defense minister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like Assad, he was a member of Syria&#8217;s Alawite religious minority.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed Israeli official has denied involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever did this had to be a very impressive shot, as a rocking boat to a head shot is   a non trivial bit of marksmanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports say that Brigadier General Mohammed Suleiman was shot while at his beach villa from someone in a boat. It should be noted that he was rather more senior, and closer to Bashir Assad than his title indicated, with reports that, &#8220;His status was even more important than that of the defense minister.&#8221; Like Assad, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1133,986],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assassination","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}