Ali Habib crossed the border from Syria last night, Rooters reports, but Syrian State TV claims he is still in his home in Syria.
Al-Masri told Fox News that Ali Habib is with Turkish officials and is in the process of making contact with Syrian opposition figures within Turkey.
Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
made mention of the defection during a House committee hearing on Wednesday as the U.S. mulls a possible military strike on Syria.
"Just today before coming in here, I read an e-mail to me about a general, the minister of defense, former minister or assistant minister, I forget which, who has just defected and is now in Turkey," Kerry said. "And there are other defections that we are hearing about... because of the potential that we might take action."
Ali Habib left his defense minister post in 2011 after reportedly complaining about civilian attacks coordinated by Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad's
Supressor of the Damascenes...
regime.