Daud Rajha

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Daud Radschha ( Arabic داود راجحة, DMG Dāwud Rāǧiḥa ; * 1947 in Damascus ; † July 18, 2012 ibid) was a Syrian politician. Most recently he was Syria's Defense Minister under President Bashar al-Assad .

Life

Rajha was a member of the Greek Orthodox Church .

He graduated from the Military Academy , where he graduated in 1967 with a focus on artillery . In 1998 he was lieutenant general and 2005 General .

Radschha was Chief of Staff of the Army from June 3, 2009 until he was appointed Syrian Defense Minister by al-Assad on August 8, 2011. He replaced Ali Habib Mahmoud , who was affected by European Union sanctions.

Rajha was one of the people who were poisoned on May 19, 2012 during a meeting of senior officials in the course of the civil war in Syria, according to the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The FSA originally named him one of six killed, but this later turned out to be wrong.

According to official television, Radshha died on July 18, 2012 in a suicide attack against the government cabinet, which was located at the headquarters of the National Security Agency. Al-Assad's brother-in-law Assif Shaukat and the head of the crisis cell to crush the rebellion, General Hasan Turkmani , were also killed. The condition of Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim al-Schaar , who was also injured in the attack, is unclear (as of July 18, 2012). On July 20, state television announced that General Hisham al-Ichtiyar , chief of the intelligence service, had also succumbed to his injuries.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State TV: Syria's defense minister killed. In: ORF . July 18, 2012, accessed July 18, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b Syria's Assad replaces defense minister with army chief of staff. In: Haaretz . August 8, 2011, accessed July 18, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Syrian officials acknowledge Assad's brother-in-law was killed four days ago. In: Times of Israel. May 23, 2012, accessed July 18, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Syria conflict: 'Suicide bomb' kills defense minister. In: BBC News . July 18, 2012, accessed July 18, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Three sizes of regime killed. In: ORF. July 19, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Markus Bickel: Right in the heart. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 19, 2012 .
  7. ↑ Syrian security chief dies after attack. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . July 20, 2012. Retrieved July 20, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Rajha, Daud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Damascus
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 2012
Place of death Damascus