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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
France Helped Syrian Military Figures to Desert
2012-09-12
[An Nahar] La Belle France has helped a number of Syrian military figures to desert from Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-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.
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