Hama Governor Killed In Syria Car Bomb

The governor of Hama, a senior figure in
the Assad regime, has been killed in a car
bomb explosion, accoring to the Syrian
state state news agency Sana. Dr Anas Abdul-Razzaq Na’em, a Sunni who
was the head of the Baath party until 2011,
was allegedly killed by a car bomb in the
Jarajmeh neighbourhood of the city on
Sunday. The explosion occurred as Na’em was
returning home in a convoy of vehicles in
the evening. Another civilian died and
several others were injured in the attack. State TV blamed the attack on rebels.



Anas Abdul-Razzaq Na’em with President
Assad “Terrorists assassinated…the Hama
governor, in a car bomb attack,” it said. No
rebel group has claimed it carried out the
attack. Naem was appointed to the governorship in
July 2011, four months after the beginning
of the revolt against President Bashar al-
Assad’s regime. He had replaced Khaled Abdel Aziz, who was
sacked by Assad after hundreds of
thousands of people protested against the
regime. Government troops later crushed
the dissent. Assad’s father and predecessor Hafez al-
Assad crushed a Muslim Brotherhood
uprising in the city in 1982, killing between
10,000 and 40,000 people