Underneath the CCMC is the National Security Bureau (NSB), the key apparatus of repression in wartime Syria.
It directly controls the security committees in each governorate – each one chaired by the provincial head of the Ba'ath Party – which carry out the orders of the CCMC.
The CCMC convenes every day, and the minutes of each meeting, along with recommendations from the security chiefs, are taken immediately by courier to Assad.
The first is against the CCMC, and specifically against President Assad, the interior minister Mohammad al-Shaar, and Mohammed Saeed Bekheitan, an assistant secretary in the Ba'ath Party who headed the CCMC for its first six months of operation, until September 2011.
Michael Dowling, President and CEO North Shore-LIJ Arthur Klein, MD, Executive Director & Chief of Staff Philip Lanzowsky, MD, Immediate Past Executive Director and Chief of Staff, CCMC.
At the apex is Assad's war cabinet, the Central Crisis Management Cell (CCMC), which includes the heads of the armed forces, the ministers of defence and the interior, along with the chiefs of the dominant intelligence agencies.
One of his steady activities is his Toronto-based trio, CCMC -- the name means different things at different times, he said -- which played the Manhattan club Tonic in February.
The faculty and staff at Cohen Children's Medical Center (CCMC) extend sincere condolences to Dr. Vincent Bonagura, our esteemed Chief of Allergy/Immunology and Vice Chairman of Pediatrics upon the death of his mother Vivian Bonagura.
According to recovered documents and insider witness testimony, the courier waits at the palace for Assad to review the minutes and then drives the annotated versions back to the CCMC, which sends the president's approved directives down the chain of command.
The Leadership and Staff of the North Shore-LIJ Health System and Cohen Children's Medical Center (CCMC) extend their sincere condolences to the Shenker family on the passing of Dr. I. Ronald Shenker, the founding Chief of Adolescent Medicine at our Children's Medical Center.
The above-mentioned global models can be accessed by the aid of the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) (http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/).
