Assef Shawkat

Assif Shawkat (Arabic آصف شوكت, DMG Asif Saukat; born January 15, 1950 in Al- Madehleh at Tartus, † July 18, 2012 in Damascus ) was major general and since 2009 Deputy of the Syrian chiefs of staff. Previously, he spent four years long head of Syrian military intelligence.

Life

Shaukat was a member of the Alawite community of faith. Shavkat served as a volunteer in the Syrian army and rose to major general. He studied pharmacy at the University of Damascus. In the 1980s he met Bushra al -Assad, the daughter of the then President Assad, whom he married in 1995. Shaukat was thus a brother of President Bashar al -Assad. Then made ​​Shaukat a brilliant career and in 2005 was succeeded General Hassan Khalil as Chief of Syrian Military Intelligence.

He is suspected of having organized the attack on the convoy of Rafik Hariri in 2005.

In January 2006, the accounts Schaukats have been blocked in the U.S.. As justification supporting terror and meddling in Lebanon's sovereignty was headed.

According to the Lebanese newspaper Al- Achba of 13 September 2011 appointed him Assad in the wake of nationwide protests to the Vice Minister of Defense.

Shaukat was killed on 18 July 2012 in Damascus in an attack during the civil war in Syria. Also, the Syrian defense minister Daud Radschha died in the attack. On July 20, 2012, the Syrian intelligence chief Hisham Bechtjar succumbed to the consequences of this attack.