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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/664542.html
Assad Accused
(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - The accusation by former Syrian vice president Abdul Halim Khaddam against Syrian President Bashar Assad corroborated the suspicion by many in the Syrian regime that Khaddam had betrayed Assad. They say he was the one who told German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis about the regime's part in murdering Lebanon's former prime minister. Khaddam, one of the only Sunnis to reach a senior position, has been seeking revenge for five years for being pushed out of government by Bashar Assad. Khaddam was also a close friend of Rafiq Hariri. In November, following the suspicion that he gave Mehlis information, Khaddam's vast property was confiscated by the Syrian government.