TLASS; A CURIOUS SYRIAN DEFECTION

I could not help noting a prominent NAME of a most recent SYRIAN General's so-called defection, TLASS.
Below, a few previous posts I did on Syrian investments, PRIVATIZATIONS, inter-connections, TLASS, EFG-HERMES, etc.
SOME embedded links, alas, curiously, do NOT seem to work.
At least, they did not for me.
Another case of missing links.
Me and Darwin.
So, FIRST:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2011/04/efg-hermes-in-syria-firas-tiass.html

Then:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2011/04/syria-assad-rami-makhlouf-cham-holding.html

Lastly, a plain vanilla wiki SNIPPET, rehashing SOME of above:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firas_Tlass