July 2nd, 2012

Syrian military defector to Amanpour: ‘Those who were injected were lucky’

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour interviewed Syrian defector Colonel Abdalhamid Zakaria for the Monday, July 2 edition of AMANPOUR.  He described his family’s terrifying escape from Aleppo, and the crisis conditions inside Syria’s civil unrest.  Zakaria alleges that there are many others like him within the Syrian armed forces that would like to defect from the regime, but says that a complicated network of spies, and intimidating threats of torture have limited them.  He also urges U.S. intervention in Syria.

AMANPOUR airs weekdays on CNN International at 3:00pm with a replay at 5:00pm Eastern in the U.S.,  and at 21:00 with a replay at 23:00 CET, in Central Europe.

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