 Complete the following phrase:  Born at Al-Tall, Ahmar joined the Baath Party in the 1950s and graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Damascus in 1964. Soon after, he was appointed as a governor of Hama 19671969 then Idlib 19691970. In 1970, the regional Baath conference elected him to the Syrian Regional Command together with Hafez Al-Assad after 