McClatchy Washington Bureau
Posted on Mon, Dec. 20, 2010
WikiLeaks: Cable tied Israel to killing of top Syrian aide
Ian Black | The Guardian
last updated: March 15, 2013 11:58:07 AM
It was late in the evening of 1 August 2008 in the Syrian coastal city of Tartous when the sniper fired the fatal shot. The target was General Muhammad Suleiman, President Bashar al-Assad's top security aide. Israelis, the US embassy in Damascus reported, were "the most obvious suspects" in the assassination.