abdaddres’s Reviews > Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria > Status Update

"As signs of the imminent undoing of the Egypt–Syria union mounted, Hafez joined a secret committee of Baathist officers in Cairo to assess their own chances of grabbing power. Initially core members were Hafez, two other Alawites like him, and two Ismailis, members of another minority group"