Asif Schaukat
Asif Shaukat ( Arabic آصف شوكت, DMG Āṣif Šaukat , also Assef Shawkat ; * January 15, 1950 in al-Madehleh near Tartus ; † July 18, 2012 in Damascus ) was major general and since 2009 deputy to the Syrian chief of staff. Before that, he was chief of military intelligence for four years .
Life
Shaukat belonged to the Alawite religious community. Shawkat 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. Her younger brother Basil al-Assad opposed this connection and had Schaukat imprisoned three times. He was then in a car accident in 1994, and the wedding took place in 1995. Shaukat was thus a brother-in-law of President Bashar al-Assad . Schaukat then made a steep career and in 2005 succeeded General Hassan Khalil as head of the military intelligence department .
He is suspected of the attack on the convoy of Rafik Hariri of having organized the year of 2005.
In January 2006, Schaukat's accounts in the United States were blocked. The reasons given were support for terrorism and interference in Lebanon's sovereignty .
According to a statement in the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar on September 13, 2011, Assad appointed him Deputy Minister of Defense in the wake of the nationwide protests .
Schaukat was killed in an attack in Damascus during the civil war in Syria on July 18, 2012 . The Syrian Defense Minister Daud Radschha also died in the attack. On July 20, 2012, the Syrian secret service chief Hisham al-Ichtiyar died as a result of the attack.
Web links
- Wolfgang Günter Lerch: The Syrian Triumvirate. Assad family clan. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 19, 2011, accessed December 15, 2019 (Detailed analysis of the Assad family).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Assad's brother-in-law also dies in an attack. Retrieved July 18, 2012 .
- ^ A b Assad's brother-in-law becomes Deputy Minister of Defense. In: ORF . September 13, 2011, accessed September 13, 2011 .
- ↑ Assad's brother-in-law also dies in the attack Spiegel Online , July 18, 2012
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/politik/ausland/article2345195/Syrischer-Sicherheitschef-stirbt-nach-Anschlag.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaukat, Asif |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schaukat, Assif; Shawkat, Assef (English spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Syrian intelligence chief |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tartus |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 2012 |
| Place of death | Damascus |