“Syria’s prime minister defected and fled to neighboring Jordan, a Jordanian official and a rebel spokesman said Monday, evidence that the widening cracks in President Bashar’s Assad’s regime have reached the highest echelons of government. A senior U.S. official said the defection is more evidence that the Assad regime ‘is crumbling.’ The official, traveling with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Johannesburg, urged other senior members of the government and military to break with Assad.” [Libya redux.]
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