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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/02/syrian-regime-tv-reporter-defects?newsfeed=true
Top Syrian TV Reporter Defects
(Guardian-UK) Martin Chulov - Ghatan Sleiba, a presenter from the Syrian regime's main television channel, al-Dunya, has defected to the opposition and revealed he has been secretly providing intelligence to rebels for the past seven months. Sleiba, 33, who arrived in Turkey last Wednesday, claimed opposition guerillas are now in control of much of eastern Syria, especially the countryside surrounding main towns and cities. Sleiba said that before interviews he regularly gave people answers to questions he was about to ask them. "Those answers and the subjects of things to talk about were given to us by the head of the Ba'ath party in the area, or by the political security division."