every mother warned her child: Do not stray far from home | On the other hand, members of his family also worked for the French occupiers after the |
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Firas, a business tycoon, left Syria for in 2011, too | Hanna Batatu 1999 , Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics, Princeton University Press, p |
Tlass was promoted to minister of defense in 1972, and became one of al-Assad's most trusted loyalists during the following 30 years of one-man rule in Syria.
26[ ] In 1998, Syrian Defense Minister Tlass boasted to newspaper that he was the one who gave the green light to "the resistance" in to attack and kill 241 US marines and 58 French paratroopers, but that he prevented attacks on the Italian soldiers of the multi-national force because "I do not want a single tear falling from the eyes of [Italian actress] , whom [I] loved ever since my youth | He did not use the military weapon to kill them but utilized the ax to decapitate them |
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Next to the , his family was the most famous Sunni family in Syria, known for supporting the government | He attended Ecole Laique in Damascus, graduating in 1978 |
" During his term as defense minister, Mustafa Tlass was functional in suppressing all dissent regardless of being Islamists or democrats.
Tlass died on 27 June 2017 in in , at the age of 85 | Julian Borger; Martin Chulov 5 July 2012 |
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The Matzah of Zion [ ] In 1983, Tlass wrote and published The Matzah of Zion, which is a treatment of the of 1840 that repeats the ancient "blood libel", that use the blood of murdered non-Jews in religious rituals such as baking bread | Until his defection, he and his brother Manaf Tlass were regarded by Bashar al-Assad as peers and friends |
A by an -dominated Ba'ath faction further strengthened al-Assad, and by association Tlass.
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