Office: | Minister of Interior |
Primeminister: | Muhammad Naji al-Otari |
President: | Bashar al-Assad |
Term Start: | 23 April 2009 |
Term End: | 29 March 2011 |
Predecessor: | Bassam Abdel Majid |
Successor: | Mohammad al-Shaar |
Birth Place: | Jableh |
Party: | Syrian Regional Branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party |
Rank: | Major general |
Said Mohammad Sammour (Arabic: سعيد محمد سمور) (born 1950) is a Syrian military officer and politician who served as interior minister between 2009 and 2011.
Sammour was born in Jableh in 1950.[1] He received a bachelor of arts degree in English literature.[2] He also holds a diploma in aeronautical science.[2]
Sammour is a former major general. He was the chief of Syrian military intelligence in Homs.[1] He also served in the same post in charge with the Damascus Region.[3] Then he was appointed deputy chief of the military intelligence in 2005,[4] and served in the post until 2009.[4] [5]
On 23 April 2009, Sammour was appointed interior minister to the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Mohammad Naji al-Otari, replacing Bassam Abdel Majid in the post.[6] [7] [8] In April 2011, Sammour was replaced by Mohammad al-Shaar as interior minister.[9] [10]
Sammour is married and has four children.[2]