BREAKING: Syria's Ambassador to UAE Defects. Turkey Closes Border to Syria. Defected General Speaks Against Assad.

Defected general speaks out against Syrian regime

The highest-profile defector from the Syrian Government has broken his silence to condemn the actions of President Assad's regime.

In a televised statement on the Al-Arabiya network, General Manaf Tlas said:

I address you...as one of the Syrian Arab Army's sons who reject the criminal behaviour of this corrupt regime. The honourable people in the military would not accept these crimes.

– GENERAL MANAF TLAS IN TELEVISION STATEMENT

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BEIRUT: Syrian general Manaf Tlass called on Syrians Tuesday to unite and start building a post-President Bashar al-Assad Syria as he made his first public appearance since defecting from the regime.

Reading a prepared statement on the Saudi-based Al-Arabiya television channel, Tlass called on Syrians to "unite... to serve a Syria after Assad... and do the impossible, to ensure the unity of Syria, and to be sure to start building a new Syria."

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BREAKING: Half the UN observer mission in Syria has left country

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Last Edited by DoorBert on 07/25/2012 05:06 AM

These defectors are just trying to save their necks; they'll say all the right things. The are just as guilty as Assad if not more so.

yep, i don't think they changed their point of view, they are just afraid getting killed

#BREAKING: Tuesday's death tolls in #Syria: 160 according to the Syrian Observatory, 140 according to LCC and 152 according to SNHR #Syria

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UNHCR says Turkey has told it border crossings with #Syria to close to all commercial traffic, but will remain open to Syrian refugees


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Syrian National Council member says country's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates defects to Qatar

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Update: Turkey's border with Syria to close to all commercial traffic but will remain open to refugees, UN confirms

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Correspondent Tweets:

Turkish media report troops at border are preparing for potential chemical weapons from Syria.

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SYRIA CRISIS BRIEFING: A Collision Course for Intervention

The Syrian crisis took a decisive new turn on 25 July. President Bashar al-Assad’s own future is now significantly less relevant to whatever will happen next in the country and external intervention, in some form, is now significantly more likely.

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Rebels brace for all-out war in Syria's largest city

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to plan a political transition in his violence-plagued country.

"We do believe that it is not too late for the al-Assad regime to commence with planning for a transition, to find a way that ends the violence by beginning the kind of serious discussions that have not occurred to date," Clinton told reporters after meeting with Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe.

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Assad has been moving chemical weapons to ‘airports’ on borders, rebels claim

Free Syrian Army leadership says regime began transferring stockpiles months ago

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Russian, Western and Arab forces were piling up on Syrian borders Wednesday, July 25, bringing closer a war confrontation which could spur the Assad regime into making good on its threat to use chemical weapons against “external aggression.”

Based on this reading, Moscow added its voice Tuesday to that of US President Obama and warned Bashar Assad against using chemical weapons in view of “its commitments under the international convention it ratified prohibiting the use of poisonous gases as a method of warfare.”

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President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has friends in the region poised “to strike out” in the event of an intervention into Syria, says a commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. The warning was particularly sent to “hated” Arab countries.

“None of Syria’s friends or the great front of resistance has yet entered the scene, and in the event that this happens, decisive blows will be struck at the enemy, especially the hated Arab rulers,” Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, a spokesman of the country’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Fars news agency.

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Assad chemical weapons plans blocked by Moscow, Russian warships entered the Mediterranean.

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We are on road to Aleppo. Passing minefield. Black smoke rising from town ahead. #syria

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Some of FSA fighters here are no older then 15. Seem to have some sort of control, registring anyone who comes in

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Ankara: Assad leaves Turkish border to Kurds

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British military sources in London said the moment is rushing forward for British forces to get involved in what is happening in Syria

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Turkey seals border with Syria as fighting rages; Assad regime hit with new diplomatic defections

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Syria is demanding help from Iran

A delegation of 15 Syrian ministers and high-ranking officials arrived in the Iranian capital, Tehran, in a bid to meet senior Iranian officials on bilateral ties and discuss regional and international issues.

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enough with syria

every day the same thing

let me guess this shit will get pinned

Does the CIA really have no idea about the nature of Syria's rebels?

How could the US intelligence services and their allies know so little about who is fighting in Syria? After all, there's an overt intelligence budget of $70 billion and however many more billions for covert intelligence gathering, and Syria is right at the top of the government's foreign police concerns.

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this twitter account is full of shit, he is lying and is using debka and dailymail as a source

total crap, there will be no intervention from britain

Ex-UK colonel: 'Highly likely' western forces have been in Syria 'for a considerable time'

"Special forces advisers working alongside rebel commanders, with air support on call, "could be tactically and strategically decisive, as it proved in Afghanistan and Libya."

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Wow the terrorist supporters are in a state of panic as the syrian army is bringing peace and security to one neighberhood after another. sorry war mongers but syria belongs to syria

Newest Israeli tourist attraction: Watching Syrians fight

Dozens of Israelis are flocking to vantage points in the Golan Heights to observe the ongoing clashes in neighboring Syria, the Times of Israel reported on its website yesterday.

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‘World being readied for aggression against Syria’


World opinion is being orchestrated towards a military operation against the Syrian regime, researcher and author F. William Engdahl told RT. Still, any decisive action against Assad will be postponed until after the US presidential election.

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95% of Damascus is peaceful right now!! The Syrian Army is winning! We have liberated our nation from the terrorists, soon you will here it in the Zionist Media aswell. Fighting in Damascus is nearly over.

Brazil Removes Diplomats from Syria

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry on Friday removed nearly all its diplomats from the Brazilian embassy in Syria because of heavy fighting in Damascus.

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If Assad goes, then Iran & Hizbollah are toast.

No way wil Iran & Hizbollah let their boy fall easily.

If they really do see him imminently falling, then they & Hamas will all lash out at Israel simultaneously in a last-fling Koranic attempt to try & ensure that the Garden of Eden, which is geographically located somewhere in the N.Iraq/N.Syria region, be turned in to Hell, & possibly the whole Earth too in WWIII/Gog & Magog!