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Syria's most prominent defector, General Manaf Tlass, has hinted that French secret agents helped him escape from Syria, where he had long been a member of President Bashar al-Assad's inner circle.
"The French [intelligence] services helped me get out of Syria and I thank them for that," Tlass, w
