Salah Jadid: Difference between revisions

In 1963 Jadid was promoted from [[Lieutenant colonel]] to [[Major general]] and named [[Chief of the General Staff (Syria)|Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces]] of Syria.<ref>{{Cite news|agency=Associated Press|date=1993-08-24|title=Salah Jadid, 63, Leader of Syria Deposed and Imprisoned by Assad (Published 1993)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/24/obituaries/salah-jadid-63-leader-of-syria-deposed-and-imprisoned-by-assad.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-23|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

 

==Strongman of Ba'athist Syria==

While Jadid remained away from public view, as the second secretary of the Ba'ath Party, men allied to him filled the top posts in state and army: [[Nureddin al-Atassi]], as party chairman, [[President of Syria|state president]] and later [[Prime Minister of Syria|prime minister]]; Yousuf Zouayyen, as prime minister; [[Ibrahim Makhous]] as [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates (Syria)|foreign minister]], [[Hafez al-Assad]] as [[Ministry of Defense (Syria)|defense minister]]; [[Abd al-Karim al-Jundi]], as [[National Security Bureau of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|security chief]]. Many of these men were Alawis (e.g. all of the above except Atassi, Jundi, and Zouayyen, who were [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]]), giving the government a sectarian character. Several were military men, and all belonged to the Ba'ath Party's [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]].