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I thought this was a very interesting development in the Syrian situation:
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=274828The "British Daily Telegraph" reports that senior Syrian regime members making contacts with rebel forces, moving funds into foreign countries in wake of senior air force commander defection.
Members of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s inner circle are covertly planing to defect and join the opposition should the Syrian regime become critically threatened by the rebellion, according to unnamed US sources in a report by The Daily Telegraph on Friday. The report could not be verified.
According to the report, senior Syrian military commanders have outlined “exit strategies” and are making direct contact with rebel forces to ensure that they will be welcomed and not persecuted.
The report follows a key defection on Thursday of a Syrian air force colonel. The colonel was the first senior officer to defect using an aircraft, after abandoning a mission to attack the city of Dera’a and landing his MiG 21 fighter jet in Jordan.
The Daily Telegraph also claimed that three other MiG pilots on the mission also considered defecting, but worried about how they would be treated.
The Syrian president is under intense pressure as he has been unable to stomp out the 15-month uprising, and world leaders considering offering him immunity in exchange for stepping down...