Syrian defector opposed to armed intervention

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AAA??Sep. 10, 2012?1:07 PM ET Syrian defector opposed to armed intervention Associated Press??Associated Press A Syrian rebel fighter holds his rifle as he and other fighters head to Aleppo to fight government forces, at their headquarters in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) A Syrian rebel fighter holds his rifle as he and other fighters head to Aleppo to fight government forces, at their headquarters in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) A Syrian child, whose displaced with her family due to fighting between the rebels and government forces, drinks water from a tanker in a school, where she and her family takes shelter, in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) Syrian Mohammed Ramadan, 46, whose displaced from his home in Dir el Zour, due to fighting between the rebels and government forces, comforts his daughter Haneen, 5, who suffers from a lung infection, while waiting to be examined by a doctor at a makeshift hospital in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) Syrian rebel fighters raise their weapons as they head to fight government forces in Aleppo, in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) Syrian rebel fighters, attend Muslims noon prayers before heading to fight government forces in Aleppo, at their headquarters in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) PARIS (AP) ? Syria's most prominent defector says he opposes any foreign military intervention in the country's civil war and that he's confident of the opposition's ability to topple President Bashar Assad's regime on its own. Manaf Tlass, a Syrian general who was the first defector within Assad's inner circle, says, "It's up to the Syrian people to achieve victory by themselves," and that foreign military intervention "could not provide a solution" to the conflict, which began in March 2011. Tlass' defection in early July was hailed as a resounding triumph by the opposition, but his motives have raised suspicions. He called on outside powers to give the opposition "all the aid and support" needed to topple Assad. He spoke in a recorded interview that aired Monday on French television station BFM. Associated Press

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