Shibli al-Aysami
Shibli Yousef Hamad al - ʿ Aysamī (Arabic شبلي العيسمي ), also known as Chebli, Shebli or Shibli -L -A ʾ ysami, al - Ayasami, al - Ayssami or al - ʿ Aisamī transcribed ( born February 5, 1925 in al- Suwayda, Syria ) was a Baathist Syrian politicians. On 24 May 2011 he was kidnapped in Lebanon by unknown and has since disappeared. Maybe he is now no longer alive.
In Syria
Originally from a Druze family Shibli al - Aysami was born in drusen area Jebel al-Druze, which was then cleaved under French mandate rule as an autonomous Druze state of Syria. Al- Aysami studied in Damascus and became a teacher. In Damascus, he met Michel Aflaq and counted in 1947 the founders of the Baath Party and its National line ( National Commando ).
After the government takeover of the Baath Party in 1956 and 1963, he held various ministerial posts in the Syrian government - until August 1963 he was Minister of Education, then to November 1963 Agriculture in the cabinet of Salah ad-Din al - Bitar, then to May 1964 Culture in the Cabinet of Amin al- Hafiz.
On May 27, 1964 triggered al - Aysami al - Hafiz as Secretary General of the Syrian Regional leadership of the Baath Party from, on 28 December 1965 he was elected deputy chairman of the Presidential Council of the National Revolutionary instead Nureddin al - Atassis and was thus up to 23 February. Syrian Vice President in 1966 as first deputy of the President Amin al- Hafiz.
In Iraq
After wing struggles within the Syrian Baath Party and ( " neobaathistischen " ) the coup of the left wing of 23 February 1966, he was as Aflaq, al - Hafiz al - Bitar and other party officials initially arrested and sentenced to death, but escaped and fled with Aflaq in Lebanon. After the takeover of the Baath Party in Iraq Aflaq and al - Aysami 1968 went to Baghdad. Part of his family remained in Lebanon, another part moved to the U.S. or to Venezuela (eg Shlibis brother Carlos, the father of Tareck El Aissami ).
In Iraq, the Baath Party in 1974 formed a new National Commando; Aflaq became secretary general and al - Aysami his deputy. Although he was replaced in 1979 in this function by the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, al - Aysami but remained a major party political journalist and fierce critic of the Syrian Neo - Ba'th regime until 1992 he retired into private life.
Exile and abduction
After the U.S. invasion of Iraq al - Asyami 2003 fled to Egypt (unlike al - Hafiz, who returned to Syria ), since 2007, he was in possession of a diplomatic passport of the Republic of Yemen. After a stay in the U.S. In 2008, he visited his relatives in Lebanon in 2011. On another visit he was taken on May 24 in the town of Aley unknown. His daughter makes the Syrian Assad regime responsible and suspected al - Aysami in a Syrian prison, where she fears in the face of his old age for his health and his life. The Syrian regime claimed instead, the Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt knew about al - Aysamis fate. Others make Syrian Salafis responsible for the kidnapping al - Aysamis. His family also appealed in 2012 to the UN Human Rights Committee.
Bibliography (selection)
- Muhafazat al - Suwayad (1962 )
- La révolution arabe (1971 )
- Arab Unity through experience ( Beirut, 1971)
- Unity, Freedom, Socialism (Madrid, 1976)
- Arab Socialist Ba'th Party: The establishment period in the forties (Varese, 1977)