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This Saturday July 21, 2012 image made from amateur video released by the Ugarit News and accessed Sunday, July 22, 2012, purports to show Syrian Brig. Gen. Abdul-Nasser Farzat, from the Aleppo Academy for Military Engineering, claiming to have defected to the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo, Syria. In the video Farzat says, " I have joined the Free Syrian Army, the army of heroes that is defending the nation. (AP Photo)Interestingly, he directed the same message to Russia in Russian.