Israel: February 27, 2000

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Syrian intelligence chief General Ali Douba has been forced into retirement; he had opposed the defacto selection of President Assad's son Bashir as the next president. Douba was replaced by his deputy, General Assef Shawkat, who happens to be Assad's son-in-law. --Stephen V Cole

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