Senior Damascus intelligence officer defects to Jordan -TV
Demonstrators protest against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad after Friday prayers in Maraa, near Aleppo, July 27, 2012. The placard reads: "Friday of the two capitals (Damasucs and Aleppo) uprising".
Image by: HANDOUT / REUTERS
Image by: HANDOUT / REUTERS
A senior Syrian intelligence officer has defected to Jordan, Al Arabiya television reported on Sunday.
It said Colonel Yarub Shara was head of the Damascus branch of Political Security, an intelligence organisation responsible for monitoring and suppressing dissent.
Jordanian officials were not immediately available to comment on the report.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, fighting a 17-month-old uprising against his rule, named his former intelligence chief in Lebanon, Rustum Ghazaleh, to head Political Security last month. It was part of a series of appointments following the assassination of four members of his inner circle.
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