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Assad's Aleppo Backers Abandon Him
(CBS News) Tucker Reals and Khaled Wassef - Sources inside Aleppo tell CBS News that many of the business leaders, scholars and other prominent figures in Syria's largest city, who have backed President Bashar Assad and his family for decades, no longer see a future under his rule. At least 48 of Aleppo's elite, calling themselves the "Front of Aleppo Islamic Scholars" (FAIS), have hand-picked a provisional city council to take over Aleppo when Assad loses his grip on the country.