Jassem Alwan
Jassem Alwan Jassim Alwan or (Arabic جاسم علوان, DMG Ǧāsim ʿ Alwan, born 1926 or 1928 in Deir ez- Zor, Syria ), also falsely Qasim Alwan, is a former Syrian army officer and politician.
Life and work
Originally from a Bedouin family Jassem Alwan had studied since 1946 at the Military Academy Homs and already participated in the Palestine War as a young lieutenant in 1949. He had 1961 oppponiert against the breakup of the Egyptian- Syrian union and participated on 1 April 1962 as Garnisonskommandat of Aleppo at a Nasserist coup attempt to restore the Union.
To topple the Damascus regime, to Syria Nasserist, Baathist and other Arab Socialists and Socialist Unionists had to ally with. After the successful coup of 8 March 1963 on the Jassem Alwan had probably played a major role (although that has concealed the Syrian historiography later obviously), Alwan was appointed to the Supreme and the 20-member Revolutionary Command, in the first twelve Baathists and eight Nasserist sat. Chairman of the Command Council and Head of State was regarded as Nasser al - Atassi Louai friendly officer who was Alwan's brother in law. Immediately after the coup began Syrian and Iraqi Baathists in Cairo talks with Nasser on the restoration of the Union or of a Egyptian- Iraqi - Syrian tripartite federation.
Nasser suspected, however, the Baathists would only strengthen their own position by using its popularity. The Baathists in turn refused to recognize Nasser's sole leadership. As the talks spiked and the Baathists began to clean Nasserist from army and government, resigned the Nasserist ministers, among them Jamal al - Atassi.
Colonel Dschassem Alwan began with Nasser's approval on July 18, 1963 in a bloody coup attempt. The coup was defeated after heavy fighting in Damascus by the then interior minister Amin al- Hafiz al - Atassi Louai President was forced to resign. 27 officers involved were executed immediately, just Alwan and two others were spared Please Nasser ( according to other sources also at the request of President Tito of Yugoslavia, Boumeddiene of Algeria and Arif of Iraq). Alwan was released on 4 November 1964 and emigrated then, first to Egypt, and later in the United Arab Emirates.
After the failure of Jamal al - Atassi led by pro-democracy movement (1980) and the uprising of the Muslim Brotherhood (1982 ) Alwan met in 1984 in Amman, Jordan at the Congress of the Palestinian National Council with Iraqi and Syrian Ba'athists opposition together. Although he refused to have anything to do with the Baath, he settled in Iraq by President Saddam Hussein classified in a Syrian opposition alliance ( Front for the Liberation of Syria ) to the just the now ousted al - Hafiz counted. Late as 1995, Alwan was in Cairo an interview in which he criticized the Syrian leadership sharp. As part of an opening of the regime him President Bashar al -Assad allowed in 2005 to return to Syria. It is alleged that Mustafa Tlas should have used for him.