Ali Hammoud
{{Short description|Syrian government official (born 1944)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
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|office = Minister of Interior
|primeminister = Muhammad Mustafa Mero
|president = Bashar al-Assad
|term_start = December 2001
|term_end = October 2004
|predecessor = Mohammad Harba
|successor = Ghazi Kanaan
|birth_name = Ali Haj Hammoud
|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1944}}
|birth_place = Homs
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| party = Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
|rank = 30px Major General
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Ali Hammoud ({{langx|ar|علي حمود}}, born 1944) is a former Syrian intelligence officer and general who served as minister of interior from 2001 to 2004.
Early life
Career
Hammoud served as head of the general security administration and involved in suppressing the Islamic revolt during the period of 1976–1982. He was an intelligence officer served in West Beirut.{{cite news|title=Irish envoy meets Syrian|newspaper=The Bulletin
|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ukwPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bYYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4782,28803&dq=ali+hammoud+syrian&hl=en|access-date=10 January 2013|date=15 July 1990|location=Beirut}} Then he was made Syria's military intelligence chief in Beirut and had the rank of brigadier general.{{cite news|title=Syria Rejects Iranian Role in Beirut Force|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-24-mn-3203-story.html|access-date=14 August 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=24 May 1988|agency=AP|location=Beirut}} During his term in Lebanon, he had close ties with Emile Lahoud.{{cite journal|author1=Gary C. Gambill|author2=Ziad K. Abdelnour|author3= Bassam Endrawos
|title=Dossier: Emile Lahoud|url=http://www.meforum.org/meib/articles/0111_ld1.htm|journal=Middle East Intelligence Bulletin|date=November 2001
|volume=3|issue=11}} In May 1988 while serving as military intelligence chief in Lebanon Hammoud and three other Syrian military officers, Saeed Bairaqdar, Ghazi Kanaan and Zuheir Mustat, escaped an assassination in Ghobeiry district of Beirut.{{cite news|author=Nora Boustany|title=4 Syrian Generals Escape Beirut Assassination Bid|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/05/27/4-syrian-generals-escape-beirut-assassination-bid/0d1ac5eb-a57b-486d-9b42-0b0508828788/|access-date=6 July 2022|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=27 May 1988|location=Beirut}}
Hammoud was named the head of the General Security Directorate in October 2001, replacing Ali Houri in the post.{{cite journal|title=Assad Launches Major Cabinet Reshuffle|journal=Middle East Intelligence Bulletin|date=November 2001|volume=3|issue=11|url=http://www.meforum.org/meib/articles/0112_sb.htm}} Shortly after he was appointed interior minister in December 2001 in a cabinet reshuffle by Bashar al-Assad and replaced Mohammad Harba as interior minister.{{cite journal|author=Eyal Zisser|title=Bashar Al Assad and his Regime- Between Continuity and Change|journal=Orient|date=June 2004|volume=45|issue=2|pages=239–256
|url=http://www.ou.edu/mideast/Additional%20pages%20-%20non-catagory/Zisser_al-Asad_and_his_Regime_2004.htm}}{{cite news|title=New Syrian governments formed, 33 ministers, including 4 prime minister deputies, 17 ministers for the first time|access-date=24 February 2013
|url=http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011214/2001121411.html|work=Arabic News|date=14 December 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081014142335/http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011214/2001121411.html|archive-date=14 October 2008|url-status=dead}}{{cite journal|author=Sami Moubayed|title=Ushering in the new|journal=Al Ahram Weekly|date=20–26 December 2001
|volume=565|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/565/re6.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 March 2013|author-link=Sami Moubayed|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130324155957/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/565/re6.htm}} The cabinet was headed by Prime Minister Muhammad Mustafa Mero.{{cite news|title=New Syrian Government Formed; Veteran Guards Retain Defence and Foreign Portfolios|url=http://www.albawaba.com/news/new-syrian-government-formed-veteran-guards-retain-defence-and-foreign-portfolios|access-date=9 February 2013|work=Albawaba|date=14 December 2001}} Hammoud was also promoted to the rank of major general.{{cite book
|title=The Middle East and North Africa 2003|edition=49th|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CfBKvsiWeQC&pg=PA1019|year=2003|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-85743-132-2|page=1019|location=London; New York}} Hisham Ikhtiar succeeded Hammoud as the head of the General Security Directorate.{{cite journal|author=Shmuel Bar|title=Bashar's Syria: The Regime and its Strategic Worldview|journal=Comparative Strategy|year=2006|volume=25|issue=5|pages=353–445 |doi=10.1080/01495930601105412|s2cid=154739379 }} Hammoud served as interior minister until October 2004 when he was replaced by Ghazi Kanaan in a cabinet reshuffle.{{cite news|title=Obituary: Ghazi Kanaan
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4334626.stm|access-date=10 January 2013|work=BBC|date=12 October 2005}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Interior Minister|years=2001–2004}}
{{s-aft|after=Ghazi Kanaan}}
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Category:Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region politicians