{"id":2851,"date":"2013-03-17T08:21:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T08:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2013-03-17T08:21:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T08:21:39","slug":"syrian-general-and-captain-defect-with-the-help-of-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/03\/17\/2851\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian general and captain defect with the help of rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news2\/logistic-leader.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>A brigadier general in the Syrian army and his son, a captain, defected on Saturday after preparations with the country\u2019s armed opposition.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Brigadier General Mohammed Khalouf and his son, Izz al-Din, said their plan to turn their backs on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s forces took time and planning to materialize.<br \/>\u201cPreparations for my defection from the Assad regime started with coordinated planning with different factors of the Syrian revolution until it succeeded,\u201d the brigadier general said.<br \/>Their defections coincided with that of the Syrian envoy in Cuba, Haitham Humaidan, sources told Al Arabiya on Saturday.<br \/>There have been a number of diplomats and officials who have defected from the Assad regime. However, Syria\u2019s former prime minister, Riyad Hijab, who defected in August 2012, is said to be the highest ranking official to do so.<br \/>Syria\u2019s foreign ministry spokesman, Jihad Makdissi, was also reported to have defected.<br \/>Recently, Britain and France said that they will lift an arms embargo on the Syrian opposition and will start funneling anti-Assad regime fighters with weapons despite some EU members\u2019 rejection of such a move.<br \/>The civil war has killed 70,000 people, according to U.N. estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><strong>Alarabiya<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brigadier general in the Syrian army and his son, a captain, defected on Saturday after preparations with the country\u2019s armed opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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