PARIS (Reuters) - Reports of the defection of a general who is a personal friend of Bashar al-Assad will cheer the Syrian leader's enemies at a meeting in Paris on Friday of the Western and Arab states that want to drive him from power.
A source in the exiled opposition said Manaf Tlas, a brigade commander in Assad's Republican Guard, was on his way to Paris where the "Friends of Syria" group of states opposed to Assad was due to meet. He has family there.
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