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'Assad puts intelligence chief under house arrest for planning coup'

By JPOST.COM STAFF

MAY 11, 2015 12:33

Syrian President Bashar Assad has placed his top intelligence official under house arrest for allegedly conspiring with the regime’s enemies to carry out a coup, the British daily Telegraph reported on Monday.

Ali Mamlouk, who heads the National Security Bureau, was reportedly detained after he was suspected of maintaining contact with governments backing the Syrian rebels as well as oppositionists from abroad.

According to the Telegraph report, key associates of the president, including those with access to him, “are increasingly turning on each other.”

The newspaper cites sources within the presidential palace as saying that there is great dissension within the various intelligence arms, some of whose commanders are growing wary of Iran’s burgeoning influence in Damascus.

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