Lu'ay al-Atassi

Louai al - Atassi ( b. 1926, Homs, Syria, † November 24, 2003 ibid ), rarely also Luayy or Lu'ai el- Atasi (Arabic لؤي الأتاسي, DMG Lu ʾ ai al - Atasi ) was a Syrian general and politician. March 9, 1963 to July 27, 1963 Lieutenant General Louai al - Atassi was interim president of Syria.

Military career

Louai al - Atassi graduated from the Military Academy in Homs and took 1948/49, part of the Palestine war. As a strict advocate of Arab unity striving and supporters of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, he was opposed in 1961 to the dissolution of the Egyptian- Syrian union, but was garrison commander of Aleppo, where he met the officer Nasser Jassem Alwan. After an attempted coup early April 1962 al - Atassi was initially " banished " as military attaché at the Syrian embassy in Washington before he claimed the coup could go back on 8 March 1963, as a compromise candidate of the Baath Party and the Nasserist state and Army chief was.

Policy

Jamal al - Atassi Louais relative was Minister of Information.

As Chairman of the National Revolutionary Command Council, which initially belonged to 12 Baathists and 8 Nasserist to Louai al - Atassi went along with the Ba'ath founder and Premier Salah ad-Din al - Bitar immediately to Cairo with Nasser negotiations on an Egyptian- Iraqi to lead - Syrian tripartite Union. When in July 1963 increased our negotiations and right Baathists began to displace in Nasserist army and state, were the Nasserist (including Jamal al - Atassi ) back into the government and Colonel Jassem Alwan undertook with Nasser's approval of a coup attempt.

Retirement

Alwan's coup was crushed by the then Interior Minister Amin al- Hafiz, who also forced to resign Atassi and even head of state was. Nureddin al - Mustafa Louais relative Atassi became the new interior minister (and later Deputy Prime Minister and Vice President).

Louai al - Atassi pulled out to Homs and from political life back and therefore survived the fall of 1970, Nureddin, who had al - Hafiz 1966 displacing.

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