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Syria: Officer of Syrian Arab Army assassinated- adviser to Syrian President Thu. August 07, 2008 02:09 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. - (SomaliNet) Syria on Wednesday confirmed the assassination of a top army general who was described by the Arab media as having been the Syrian regime's liaison with the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah militant group. "(Mohammed) Sleiman, an officer of the Syrian Arab Army has been assassinated," Butheina Shaaban, an adviser to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, told reporters. "An investigation is underway," she added. On Sunday Arab media reported that Sleiman had been murdered. The Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat quoted "informed sources" in London as saying that a senior Syrian officer had been found dead. "The circumstances of the incident are not clear," the London-based paper said in its report, which said the sources suggested that the slain officer had been "in charge of sensitive files and closely linked to the Syrian top brass." Al-Bawaba, an Arab news website, named the officer as Mohammed Sleiman and said he was "Syria's liaison officer with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement." It said he was killed by a sniper in the coastal city of Tartus and was to be buried in his hometown of Driekesh on Sunday. The Lebanese anti-Syrian daily al-Mustaqbal quoted a Syrian news site as saying Sleiman was the head of security at the presidential palace in Damascus and Assad's "right-hand man." The paper made no mention of Hezbollah in its report. A Hezbollah official told AFP in Lebanon that he did not know Mohammed Sleiman and had not heard about any killing. The reports came almost six months after the killing in a Damascus car bombing of top Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughnieh, which the Shiite militant group blamed on Israel. Israel has denied the Hezbollah charge that it was behind the assassination of Mughnieh in the Syrian capital on February 12. - Sapa-AFP News Category: World Latest Headlines Latest News Iraqi: Law maker killed in bomb attack ... Pakistan: Roadside bomb kills 11 in Pakistan US to revise North Korea's terrorism blacklist status... Belgium: 500 kilos of cocaine found in tuna shipment<... Nigeria: Senior official not guilty over $40 million... Ethiopia: 4.6 million Ethiopian now need emergency ... Africa: AU chairman urges world not to cut aid to Af... DR Congo: Gov’t asks UN council to meet on Rwandan i... South Africa: ANC likely to split says leading dissi... Libya cuts oil supplies to Switzerland ... More News...