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Ali Duba

Syrian Military and Intelligence Officer (1933–2023)

Summary

Syrian Military and Intelligence Officer (1933–2023)

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	Lieutenant General
name	Ali Duba
native_name
native_name_lang	ar
image	Ali Duba, director of Syrian military intelligence, in 1970s (cropped).png
image_size	240px
caption	Ali Duba in 1970s (On the left)
birth_date
birth_place	Qurfays, Jableh District, Latakia Governorate, Syria
death_date
death_place	Latakia, Syria
serviceyears	1955–2000
rank	[[File:Syrian Arab Army Lieutenant General Services Uniform.png	30px]] Lieutenant General
nationality	Syrian
party	Ba'ath Party
battles	Six-Day War
Yom Kippur War
Lebanese civil war
Islamist uprising in Syria
office	Director of Military Intelligence Directorate
termstart	1973
termend	2000
birth_name	Ali Issa Ibrahim Douba
succeeded	Hassan Khalil
predecessor	Hikmat al-Shihabi
president	Hafez al-Assad
allegiance	Flag of Syria (1930–1958, 1961–1963).svg Second Syrian Republic (1955–1958)
United Arab Republic
(1958–1961)
Flag of Syria (1930–1958, 1961–1963).svg Second Syrian Republic (1961–1963)
Ba'athist Syria
(1963–2000)
unit	Military Intelligence

| honorific-prefix = Lieutenant General | honorific-suffix = Yom Kippur War Lebanese civil war Islamist uprising in Syria United Arab Republic (1958–1961) Flag of Syria (1930–1958, 1961–1963).svg Second Syrian Republic (1961–1963) Ba'athist Syria (1963–2000)

Ali Issa Ibrahim Duba (, 1933 – 21 June 2023), better known as Ali Douba, was a Syrian military officer who was the head of the Military Intelligence Directorate under Hafez al-Assad as well as his close adviser. Under Douba’s leadership, the Military Intelligence Directorate was the most important security agency in Syria, responsible for maintaining security within the army and safeguarding the regime.

Early life

Duba was born to a small landowning family from the Alawite tribe of Matawira, in the village of Qurfays in the Jableh District south of Latakia. He joined the Ba'ath Party in the early 1950s while studying at the Holy Land Secondary School in Latakia.

Career

Duba joined the Syrian Army in 1955 and became the deputy head of internal security at the Damascus branch of the General Intelligence Directorate five years later. He served as military attaché at the Syrian embassy in Great Britain between 1964 and 1966, and in Bulgaria between 1967 and 1968.

Douba took part in suppressing the Muslim Brotherhood revolt in Hama during February 1982.

In 1999 he was pushed aside by Bashar al-Assad over fears that he could be a rival for the presidency, and was made to retire in February 2000.

He lived in Syria until his death on 21 June 2023. EU Council Regulation 36/2012 placed him on a list of persons whose funds were frozen. His last public appearance occurred in May 2021 when he cast a vote for Bashar al-Assad in the 2021 Syrian presidential election.

Death

Duba died on 21 June 2023 in a military hospital in Latakia at the age of 89.

References

Zisser, Eyal. (September 1995). "The Succession Struggle in Damascus". [[The Middle East Quarterly]].
Batatu, Hanna. (1999). "Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics". Princeton University Press.
Faure, Claude. (2002). "Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Culture, History, and Politics". Macmillan Reference USA.
Pan, Esther. (10 March 2006). "Syria's Leaders". [[Council on Foreign Relations]].
[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:016:0001:0032:EN:PDF Council regulations]. ''Official Journal of the European Union''
(2023-06-21). "Syria: Feared former intelligence chief Ali Duba dies age 89".
The New Arab Staff. (2023-06-21). "Syria: Feared former intelligence chief Ali Duba dies age 89".

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