"Gen. Muhammed Suleiman, "personal mentor" to Pres. Assad ..& had been supplying anti-aircraft missiles to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.."

In the SundayTimes, quoting the most unreliable Asharq Al Awsat, here

"....Suleiman had been President Bashar al-Assad’s personal mentor since 1994, after the death of the president’s brother Basel in a car accident. Assad later appointed Suleiman as his operations officer and made him responsible for protecting the regime.

If Syria has passed Russian-made SA-8 mobile launchers to Hezbollah, the Shi’ite militia that came close to defeating the Israeli army two years ago, it is in possession of a potent weapon to defy Israeli air power...."