Former Syrian vice president Abdel-Halim Khaddam is trying to rally opposition parties to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad, according to an interview published in a leading Arabic newspaper on Friday.In an interview with Asharq al-Awsat from his home in Paris, Khaddam said he was trying to "create the right atmosphere for the Syrian people to topple the regime."
I don't think you can consider a long time aide to any Assad a friend of freedom (Khaddam was an aide to Assad's father), so this says volumes about how bad things are in Syria right now. It also may be a little opportunistic. Khaddam claims to not be interested in the Syrian Presidency, but denial of ambition is not an uncommon act.
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