Activists: Senior army defector executed by Al-Assad forces

The opposition Syrian Association for the Defense of Human Rights said Monday that soldiers from the Air Intelligence Forces, who are loyal to the Syrian regime, killed senior army dissident Colonel Hussein Harmoush by firing squad dpa reported Harmoush, who announced his defection from the government forces last June and had a major role in the formation of the Free Syrian Army, was reportedly captured at his hideout in Turkey in September by secret agents loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. He then appeared on state television on September 20 denying that he had defected and that he was never ordered to fire at civilians.