Syrian Radio and TV Host Ola Abbas Defects to Join Rebellion. At about 7:30 p.m. on July 11, Ola Abbas sat down at her laptop in her apartment in southeast Damascus and summoned her courage.
She then compressed her rage, which had been building up for months, into 187 words that have changed her life. At about 10 p.m., she clicked "Send" and posted her message on Facebook. In it, she explains that she now sides with the Syrian rebels and no longer supports Syrian President Bashar Assad. She fled to Beirut the next day and to Paris a week later. Everything has changed since then. Interactive: Tracking Syria's defections - Syria Defections - Al Jazeera English - Pale Moon. Syria: “I Tweeted Prime Minister Riad HIjab’s Defection First” · Global Voices - Pale Moon. ♕ The 47th ♕ (THE_47th) sur Twitter - Pale Moon...