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July 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Kofi Annan, the international envoy to Syria who has drafted a plan designed
to bring Assad’s departure, meanwhile warned the West and Russia, which did
not attend the meeting, that their “destructive competition” was
allowing the civil war to spread.
A change of heart in Russia, which clings to Syria as its only ally in the
Middle East, is currently regarded by Western powers as one of the two best
hopes for bringing about change in Damascus. The other is that the power
structure around Mr Assad crumbles, hence the enthusiasm for Brig Gen Tlas’s
defection.
“Those with the closest knowledge of Assad’s actions and crimes are
moving away, think that’s a very promising development,” said Mrs
Clinton.
The opposition Syrian National Council was reluctant to say whether Brig Gen
Tlas would be allowed to join their ranks, but a spokesman said he would
certainly be asked to “play a supporting role for our army” and
would be “a wealth of valuable information to us”.
A former commander of brigade 105 in the elite Republican Guard, Brig Gen Tlas
fell out with Mr Assad last year over the violent repression of the
uprising, which has claimed an estimated 15,000 lives.
However, his defection did not come as a total surprise. After undertaking
several failed reconciliation missions between regime loyalists and rebels
in Rastan, his home city, he gave up his military uniform and rarely left
his residence in Damascus, where he let his beard and hair grow long.
His cousin Abdel Razzak commands the rebel Free Syrian Army in Homs, while his
brother Firas defected last year and lives in Dubai. The family is Sunni,
the majority community that has been the focus of the uprising against a
ruling class rooted in Assad’s minority Alawite sect.
The highest level defector so far, his father Mustafa was a minister for 34
years and drew adverse publicity for publishing an anti-Semitic diatribe in
the wake of the September 11 attacks.
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