Ali Mamlouk is a Syrian intelligence officer and special security and military advisor to President Bashar al-Assad.
15 Facts About Ali Mamlouk
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Ali Mamlouk is reportedly one of Assad's most trusted associates.
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From 2012 to 2019, Mamlouk served as the head of the National Security Bureau of the Ba'ath Party.
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On 9 July 2019, Ali Mamlouk was appointed as the Syrian Deputy Vice President for Security Affairs.
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Ali Mamlouk was born in Al-Bahsa, Damascus into a Sunni family on 19 February 1946.
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Ali Mamlouk's family has branches in Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt.
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Ali Mamlouk is said to be one of the founding officers of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence in the 1970s.
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Ali Mamlouk was deputy director there, when in June 2005 President Bashar al-Assad appointed him head of the General Security Directorate.
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Ali Mamlouk discussed efforts to increase co-operation between Washington, DC and Damascus on terrorism issues at a surprise meeting with US diplomats.
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Ali Mamlouk said the GID had been more successful at fighting terrorism in the region because "we are practical and not theoretical".
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Ali Mamlouk was said to be on good terms with all of Syria's intelligence agencies; the heads of the Air Force Intelligence Directorate and the Political Security Directorate were once his assistants.
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In July 2012 following the Damascus security HQ bombing, it was reported that Ali Mamlouk would become the head of the National Security Bureau with the rank of minister overseeing the entire security apparatus, and that former military intelligence chief Abdel-Fatah Qudsiyeh would become his assistant.
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Ali Mamlouk is one of many officials sanctioned by the European Union for their alleged actions against protesters participating in the Syrian revolution.
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Ali Mamlouk's agency had "repressed internal dissent, monitored individual citizens, and had been involved in the Syrian government's Siege of Daraa, where protesters were killed by Syrian security services".
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In July 2015, Ali Mamlouk visited Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Muscat in Oman and met with Saudi and GCC officials to discuss proposals for ending the Syrian Civil War.