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Source: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/03/kidnapped_or_de.html
Has a Top Iranian General Defected?
[ABC News] Hoda Osman and Christopher Isham - A respected analyst with sources in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard says Gen. Ali Reza Asgari has defected and is now in a European country with his entire family, where he is cooperating with the U.S. "This is a fatal blow to Iranian intelligence," said the source, explaining that Asgari knows sensitive information about Iran's nuclear and military projects. Asgari arrived in Istanbul from Damascus on Feb. 7 but failed to show up at his hotel. Asgari's years with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the Iranian defense ministry would make him an invaluable source of information. He was reportedly based in Lebanon in the 1990s and was in charge of ties with Hizbullah.