Wednesday, January 04, 2006
An important defection?
It is an unconfirmed report from DEBKA, so one can only dream:
There are no confirming mainstream media reports, and even Stratfor has nothing.
But. If this story were true, we probably would not hear it confirmed by any other source for a while, because everybody and his brother will want to have a crack at the guy. If ultimately confirmed, it would be more evidence of cracks in the Assad government. It might also put to rest righty hopes that Saddam's WMD documents-materials-stockpiles moved to Syria ahead of the invasion. That would help, since any time spent arguing about that blown intelligence assessment is a pointless distraction from more important matters.
Via LGF.
Retired General Ali Duba, known as father of Syrian intelligence and loyal aide of Presidents Assad father and son has fled to London from Damascus.
There are no confirming mainstream media reports, and even Stratfor has nothing.
But. If this story were true, we probably would not hear it confirmed by any other source for a while, because everybody and his brother will want to have a crack at the guy. If ultimately confirmed, it would be more evidence of cracks in the Assad government. It might also put to rest righty hopes that Saddam's WMD documents-materials-stockpiles moved to Syria ahead of the invasion. That would help, since any time spent arguing about that blown intelligence assessment is a pointless distraction from more important matters.
Via LGF.
1 Comments:
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SlantRight 2.0, at
Wed Jan 04, 11:20:00 AM:
If it is true that he fled, I suspect he was about to made the sacrifice by Assad for all the happenings in Lebannon. You know, the scape goat killed. If you can kill the scape, what he knows dies with him. But oops, the scape goat got away. This will be bad news for Assad and Islamofascism in general if true.
