Word: dabbagh
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...killed by armed members of the right-wing Muslim Brotherhood. The students, most of whom belonged to Syria's small but politically dominant Alawite sect, were gunned down following an academy lecture. Announcing the slayings a week later on Damascus radio, Syria's Interior Minister, Brigadier Adnan Dabbagh, accused the brotherhood of also carrying out a series of other political assassinations since 1975. He vowed that his government intended to "liquidate" the organization, which was formed in Egypt in 1928 for the purpose of imposing strict Islamic order on Muslim countries. Last week Syria announced that 15 members...