Ziad al-Hariri

Ziad al-Hariri
Chief of Staff of the Syrian Army
In office
8 March 1963 – 8 July 1963
Prime MinisterSalah al-Din Bitar
Preceded byAbd al-Karim Zahr al-Din
Succeeded bySalah Jadid
6th Minister of Defense
In office
2 May 1963 – 8 July 1963
Preceded byMuhammad al-Sufi
Succeeded byMuhammad Umran
Personal details
Born1930 (age 93–94)
Hama, State of Damascus, Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
NationalitySyrian
Political partyIndependent
Military service
Allegiance Syria
Branch/serviceSyrian Army
Years of service1948–1963
Rank Major general
CommandsGeneral Staff of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces

Mohammed Ziad al-Hariri (born 1930) is a former prominent Syrian Army officer. A staunch Arab nationalist, he supported the union between Syria and Egypt in 1958, opposed Syria's secession from it in 1961 and served as the chief leader of the coup d'état that toppled the secessionist government in March 1963.[1][2][3][4][5] Politically independent from the Nasserists and their Ba'athist rivals, Hariri served as the army's chief of staff following the coup and was briefly defense minister until being dismissed during a wide-scale purge of non-Ba'athists from the military. He retired from political activity soon afterward.

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  3. ^ Haddad, 1973, p. 396.
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  5. ^ Mufti, 1996, p. 146.

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