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Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/05/us-syria-crisis-tlas-idUSBRE8640X920120705
Syrian General Breaks from Assad's Inner Circle
(Reuters) Khaled Yacoub Oweis - Tlass was privy to the inner working of the military crackdown by the core Alawite forces on the popular revolt. As a senior officer in the Republican Guard, he would have been in regular contact with that force's commander, Bashar al-Assad's feared younger brother Maher, an architect of repression.