“God is great.” These were the words used by Druze leader Walid Joumblatt following the announcement of the arrest, in Syria, of Ibrahim Huayja, a senior Syrian military official involved in the assassination of his father, Kamal Joumblatt, the founder of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), on March 16, 1977.
The announcement was made by official Syrian news agency Sana, which quoted a source within the Syrian General Security. Sana reported the arrest of Huayja, the former head of the General Intelligence Directorate under Assad’s regime, but did not provide further details on the case, adding that he was arrested in Jableh, “after a meticulous manhunt.”
Huayja is from the town of Jableh, near Latakia, where forces of the new Syrian authorities are engaged in clashes with militias loyal to Bashar al-Assad.
Huayja enrolled in the Syrian army in the 1970s. He was appointed in 1995 as head of the Air Force Intelligence, a position he held until 2002, according to the Janoubia website.
This service is considered one of the most important security agencies in Syria and directly reported to the Syrian president at the time, Hafez al-Assad, according to Janoubia.
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