Moustafa Tlas

Moustafa Tlas or Mustafa Tlass (in Arabic: rear RTL مصطفىطلاس) is a politician and military Syria N born in 1932. born in the locality from Rasten close to the historical city to Hims

He is the father of Nahed Ojjeh, widow of the adviser of the Saoudi Minister for Defense Akram Ojjeh.

Tlas follows a military career and becomes a close relation of Hafez el-Assad. One year after the coup d'etat which brought Hafez el-Assad to the capacity in 1970, Tlas is named vice chief of Staff of the Syrian armed forces. He becomes shortly after Minister for Defense.

Contrary to the majority of the people named by Hafez el-Assad in the military apparatus, Tlas is not Musulman Alaouite but sunnite.

In the years 1970, Mustafa Tlas modernizes and equips the Syrian army with the assistance with the Union of the Soviet socialist republics. At the time of the coup d'etat of Rifaat el-Assad in 1984, Tlas lines up in the camp of Hafez el-Assad. Its honesty does of it one of the most important and powerful characters of Syria, if it is not the right-hand man of el-Assad. Tlas then directs the army and the security services.

Its influence does not weaken after the death of Hafez el-Assad in 2000 and its replacement with the report heading by Bachar el-Assad. In May 2002, Bachar intervenes to delay retirement of Tlas of its post of minister of the two years Defense. After this expiry, Tlas preserves the post of Deputy Prime Minister but especially there remains one of the strong personalities of the country and a very listened adviser of Bachar el-Assad.

Moustafa Tlas was the pitiless executor of the Massacre of Hama in 1982 and of the brutal repression of the risen Muslim brothers, who made 10 to 15.000 dead.

Its publisher published the 8th edition of the Protocoles of wise of Sion whose publications was highly criticized by the Western countries.

He wrote more than 40 books of which the Unleavened one of Sion, shown to be a concentrate of ideology Antisémite means-âgeuse taking again the charges of ritual crime against the Jews and analyzing the business of the monk franciscain assassinated in 1840 in Syria which had given place to the same charges.

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