totalitarian regime and a dictatorship. and all orders come from president assad. translator: in 2003 after the american invasion of iraq a toppling of the syrian regime, they had an agreement with al qaeda so keep the road open to iraq so militants started coming from all over the world to syria under the eyes of the syrian secret police who are directly responsible for the killing of thousands of iraqis and coalition forces. he trained and provided shelter and built safe havens for al qaeda to hide in. he is the second high-profile sooun official to break within the regime in a week. ivan, did he say why he defected exactly? he said that it was the litany he gave a litany of all the atrocities and massacres that have been committed and he says he had tried to convince the syrian government to change its approach to the syrian people and when he saw there was no hope of a softer approach, that he decided to end his relationship with the regime that he worked with, h