Bodyguard to Assad’s wife killed by anti-regime Alawites, Syrian media and attackers say

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Bodyguard to Assad’s wife killed by anti-regime Alawites, Syrian media and attackers say

Multiple Syrian and other media outlets are reporting that Alaa Makhlouf-the personal bodyguard to Syrian first lady Asma al-Assad-was killed via a car bomb on Saturday, June 4th by members of the Free Alawite Movement. Syria Mubasher and Baladi appear to have been the first outlets to break the story, citing regime sources and the Free Alawite Movement’s Facebook page respectively.

“We’ve killed Alaa Makhlouf, bodyguard to the wife of Bashar the beast,” the group declared coldly on Facebook after the attack. The attack took place in central Damascus. Rumors of a possible assassination against Makhlouf had been circulating for three months, Baladi claims.

The assassination is a blow to members of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle. While many in his family remain alive, some of those closest to him have been killed over the course of the harrowing five-year-long civil war that has left over 400,000 dead.

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If this was being reported by other media, one might just say they don't like Assad.

Syrian media report but... I think the question of whom the culprits are could still be open. Could be a Syrian red flag operation in itself per the Syrian Government.

Not much else on this story.