Posted on 08/06/2012 10:10:56 AM PDT by mjp
ANKARA, Turkey – Syria's prime minister defected and fled to neighboring Jordan, a Jordanian official and a rebel spokesman said Monday, evidence that the widening cracks in President Bashar's Assad's regime have reached the highest echelons of government. Riad Hijab -- who planned the break for months, according to an aide -- is the highest-level political figure to switch sides and is certain to encourage rebels after a string of military and diplomatic figures abandoned the regime. A senior U.S. official said the defection is more evidence that the Assad regime "is crumbling." The official, traveling with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Johannesburg, urged other senior members of the government and military to break with Assad.
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So is Obama’s plan to have the country taken over by Al Quida?
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