Former Syrian PM Hid Inside Country for 2 Days Before Defecting
by News Editor
Former Syrian Prime Minister Riyad al-Hijab. Photo: wiki commons.
Fox News/AP – Syria’s prime minister completed his defection by crossing into Jordan at dawn Wednesday after two days of hiding inside his homeland, according to Jordanian officials and a spokesman for the rebel Free Syrian Army.
They described an operation that involved deceiving the news media into reporting that Prime Minister Riad Hijab had already made it to Jordan so that the Syrians would stop looking for him.
