SYRIA - THE MEDIA WAR: U. S. Syrian Puppet After Assad .Defector and Syrian Gen. Manaf Tlas is being groomed to lead after Bashar al-Assad falls. But will anyone follow?

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

U. S. Syrian Puppet After Assad .Defector and Syrian Gen. Manaf Tlas is being groomed to lead after Bashar al-Assad falls. But will anyone follow?

By Deborah Amos

Updated Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at 12:20 PM ET

Manaf Tlass.

Defected Syrian Gen. Manaf Tlass

Photograph by Adem Altan/GettyImages.

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