Attempted assassination of Hafez al-Assad in June 1980
April 13, 2024
On 26 June 1980, an assassination attempt on Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian president, was carried out by Muslim Brotherhood supporters who threw two grenades and fired machine gun bursts at him as he waited for an African diplomat in the Guest Palace in Damascus.[1][2][3]Assad kicked one grenade out of range, whilst one of Assad's bodyguards threw himself on the other grenade.
The attack came in the context of the Islamist uprising in Syria. The attack on the president prompted a series of deadly retaliation by the government troops, most notably the Tadmor prison massacre, carried out the next day. Ten days later Law No. 49 was passed, making membership of the Muslim Brotherhood a capital offense.[1]
^ abMoubayed, Sami (2015). Under the Black Flag: At the Frontier of the New Jihad. I.B.Tauris. pp. 38–39. ISBN9781784533083.
^Seale, Patrick (1989), Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East, University of California Press, p.328-329
^Syria’s Tadmor Prison Massacre: Reliving Horrors of 32 Years Past JUNE 27, 2012
April 13, 2024
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