A video statement from a group calling itself the "Hawks Special Operations Battalion ... a division of the Military Leadership of Damascus City and Province" gave the name of the general as Vladimir Petrovich Kochyev. The video, sent to Reuters, showed what the rebels said was a copy of his ID issued by the Syrian military.
Comment: This is the same group that claimed responsibility for the assassination of four of President Bashar al-Assad's top lieutenants in Damascus last month.
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