Tlass leadership for the new opposition army is a rumor: military source

  A chief of staff source denied to Zaman Alwasl nominating the former Brigadier General of the Syrian Republican Guard, Manaf Tlass to head the new opposition National Army.

 Recently, Mr. Ahmed Jarba, leader of the main stream opposition, stated about the common wish to form a national army which can unify all efforts and the scattered armed groups under one banner. Today, the cyber media activists have circulated that the son of ex-defense minister Mustafa Tlass will be the general commander of the new army.

Most of the revolutionary activist and coordination are against the spoiled boy as they describe him.

The military source has condemned all rumors which try to defame the chief of joint staff and to undermine the noble work of the Free Syrian Army.

 Tlass was a close friend of Basil Assad, Hafez Assad's eldest son and heir apparent until his death in a 1994 car accident. He later became close to Bashar Assad, having attended military college with Assad, Bashar Assad regarded the Tlass brothers as peers and friends.