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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Ali Douba<br/>علي دوبا
| birth_date={{birth year and age|1933}}
| birth_place=[[Qurfays]], [[Jableh District]], [[French Mandate of Syria|Syria]]
| death_date=
| age=
| death_place=
| occupation = Head of the [[Military Intelligence (Syria)|Military Intelligence]] (1974–2000)
| serviceyears = 1955–2000
| rank= [[File:Syria-Feriq.jpg|30px]] [[Lt. General]]
| nationality= [[Syrian people|Syrian]]
| party = [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Syrian Regional Branch]] of the [[Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]]
| battles = [[Yom Kippur War]]
}}
'''Ali Douba''' ({{lang-ar|علي دوبا}}) (b. 1933) is a former head of the [[Syria]]n [[Military Intelligence (Syria)|military intelligence]] and was a close adviser to the Syrian president [[Hafez al-Assad]].<ref name="Council">{{Cite web
| title = Syria's Leaders
| publisher = [[Council on Foreign Relations]]
| url = http://www.cfr.org/syria/syrias-leaders/p9085
| first = Esther
| last = Pan
| date = 10 March 2006
| accessdate = 11 February 2011
| archive-url = https://www.webcitation.org/6DX4CVtUb?url=http://www.cfr.org/syria/syrias-leaders/p9085
| archive-date = 9 January 2013
| url-status = dead
}}</ref> The military intelligence under Douba was the single most important security agency in Syria, handling security within the army, but also dealing with the general safeguarding of the regime.<ref name="Zisser">{{cite journal |last=Zisser |first=Eyal |title=The Succession Struggle in Damascus |journal=[[The Middle East Quarterly]]|volume=2 |date=September 1995 |pages=57–64|url=http://www.meforum.org/264/the-succession-struggle-in-damascus}}</ref>

==Early life==
Douba was born to a small landowning family from the [[Alawite]] tribe of Matawira, in the village of [[Qurfays]] in the [[Jableh District]] south of [[Latakia]]. He joined the [[Ba'ath Party]] in the early 1950s while studying the Holy Land Secondary School in Latakia.<ref name=Batatup338>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mbr-ZfU_uCoC&q=%22Ali+Duba%22&pg=PA240|title=Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics|first=Hanna|last=Batatu|edition=Illustrated|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1999|isbn=978-0-691-00254-5|page=240|authorlink=Hanna Batatu}}</ref>

==Career==
Douba joined the [[Syrian Army]] in 1955 and became the deputy head of internal security in [[Damascus]] five years later. He served as [[military attaché]] at the Syrian embassy in [[Great Britain]] between 1964 and 1966, and in [[Bulgaria]] between 1967 and 1968. He returned to Syria and became the head of military intelligence for the [[Latakia]] region. In November 1970, he was appointed the head of military intelligence for the city of Damascus, where he supported [[Corrective Movement (Syria)|Hafez al-Assad's coup d'état]]. In 1971, he was made deputy to the head of military intelligence, [[Hikmat al-Shihabi]]. Three years later he was made head of this department. He was elected to the Central Committee of the [[Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region|Syrian Regional Branch]] of the [[Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party]] in 1978, and promoted to general in 1981.<ref name="Faure"/> Douba took part in suppressing the [[Muslim Brotherhood]] [[Hama massacre|revolt in Hama]] during February 1982.<ref name="Zisser"/> In December 1983, when President Hafez al-Assad was ill, Duba was a member of the committee responsible for governing the state in the interim. In 1985, the Syrian president put him in charge of the Lebanon dossier, along with al-Shihabi and [[Ghazi Kanaan]]. Douba was promoted to [[lieutenant general]] and appointed deputy chief of the General Staff in January 1993, in addition to his role as head of the military intelligence.<ref name="Faure">{{cite book
| last = Faure
| first =Claude
| authorlink =
| title = Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Culture, History, and Politics
| publisher = Macmillan Reference USA
| isbn = 0-02-865977-5
| page = 109
| year = 2002}}</ref> In 1999 he was pushed aside by [[Bashar al-Assad]] over fears that he could be a rival for the presidency, and was made to retire in February 2000. He is still living in Syria.<ref name="Council"/>
EU [[Council Regulation]] 36/2012 places him on a list of persons whose funds are frozen.<ref>http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:016:0001:0032:EN:PDF</ref>

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