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Bodyguard to Assad’s wife killed by anti-regime Alawites, Syrian media
and attackers say
Published June 6th, 2016 - 11:10 GMT
http://www.albawaba.com/loop/bodyguard-wife-assad-killed-car-bomb-848826
Multiple Syrian and other media outlets are reporting that Alaa
Makhlouf-the personal bodyguard to Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad-was
killed via a car bomb on Saturday, June 4th by members of the Free
Alawite Movement. Syria Mubasher and Baladi appear to have been the
first outlets to break the story, citing regime sources and the Free
Alawite Movement’s Facebook page respectively.
“We’ve killed Alaa Makhlouf, bodyguard to the wife of Bashar the beast,”
the group declared coldly on Facebook after the attack. The attack took
place in central Damascus. Rumors of a possible assassination against
Makhlouf had been circulating for three months, Baladi claims.
The assassination is a blow to members of Syrian president Bashar
al-Assad’s inner circle. While many in his family remain alive, some of
those closest to him have been killed over the course of the harrowing
five-year-long civil war that has left over 400,000 dead.
The fact that the attack was carried out by Assad’s fellow Alawites
shows the division within that community. Many Alawites remain loyal to
the president, but some have supported the uprising since it began in
2011.
Makhlouf was from the village of Qardahah in the Latakia governorate-an
Assad stronghold. He had served as Asma al-Assad’s bodyguard for an
unknown number of years
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