Defection and flight to Jordan for the Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab. Former PM says he has turned his back on the Damascus regime in protest against the ongoing "genocide" in Syria. "THEI announce my defection from the regime for killings and terror, e I join the ranks of the uprising”, Hijab wrote in a statement read from Amman to al-Jazeera satellite TV by Mohammed al-Otri, who describes himself as Hijab's spokesman.
The situation in Syria is therefore increasingly out of control, as he also said the White House, which maintains that the leader of the regime, Bachar Al-Assad, "no longer in control of Syria". The defection organized in collaboration with the Free Syrian Army rebels, he continued, comes at a time when "Syria is experiencing its most difficult period, with war crimes, genocides, barbaric murders and massacres against unarmed citizens". Otri then specified that the former prime minister is in a "safe place" in Jordan with his family. After Hijab's decision which will have "serious repercussions on the regime," he concluded, any other Syrian official” has no more excuses to remain loyal to the regime".
