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France Helped Syrian Military Figures to Desert
[An Nahar] La Belle France has helped a number of Syrian military figures to desert from  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's embattled regime, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Tuesday. "We have contributed to a certain number of desertion operations," he told a parliamentary commission, without giving any further details. The comment came a day after defected general Manaf Tlass said French secret agents helped him escape in July from Syria, where he had been a member of Assad's inner circle. A general in the elite Republican Guard charged with protecting the regime, Tlass is the son of former defense minister Mustafa Tlass, a close friend of Assad's late father and predecessor, Hafez Assad. La Belle France is among the Western nations leading calls for Assad to step down in a bid to end the bloody conflict in Syria that erupted in March last year. French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, and a fine job he's doing of it... has said that if the Syrian opposition forms a "provisional, inclusive and representative" government, his own government will formally recognize it. Posted by: Fred 2012-09-12 |
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