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June 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The appointment of Mr Hijab comes after a new parliament was voted in on May 7
in elections boycotted by opposition groups.
Syrian
foreign ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi confirmed the report on Twitter,
saying, “Dr Riad Hijab is the new prime minister of Syria and will form
the new government.”
Former agriculture minister Mr Hijab, 46, replaces former premier Adel Safar,
who had formed his government in April 2011, one month after an Arab
Spring-inspired uprising erupted across Syria, shaking the regime which
responded with force.
According to figures of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,
more than 13,500 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the uprising.
Mr Hijab was born in Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province and holds a PhD in
engineering. He was appointed minister of agriculture in April 2011.
Prior to that, from 2004 to 2008, he served as head of the Ba’ath party in
Deir Ezzor. He later became the governor of Quneitra province, near the
border with Israel, and subsequently the governor of Latakia.
He is married with four children.
Hijab’s appointment comes days after a defiant Assad dismissed allegations
that his government had a hand in last month’s Houla massacre and accused
foreign-backed forces of plotting to destroy Syria.
“What happened in Houla and elsewhere are brutal massacres which even
monsters would not have carried out,” Assad told the parliament on
Sunday of the May 25 killing of 108 people, including 49 children, near the
central town of Houla.
“The masks have fallen and the international role in the Syrian events is
now obvious,” he said in his first address to the assembly since the
parliamentary election.
The polls were the perfect response “to the criminal killers and those
who finance them,” Assad said, stressing that his regime was determined
to push through reforms but not at the expense of security.
Meanwhile The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said violent clashes broke
out in the Damascus suburb of Harasta overnight between regime troops and
rebel forces.
The battles were “violent,” the monitoring group said, adding that “rebel
forces clashed with troops at military intelligence headquarters and at a
checkpoint.”
Rebel forces also clashed with regime troops at checkpoints near Douma, Irbin
and Zamalka, all in the Damascus region, the Britain-based watchdog said.
Battles and shootings also erupted in several other neighbourhoods of the
capital, including Tishreen.
Source: AFP
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