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Thursday, December 27, 2012 ��� Daily News 5A WORLD BRIEFING of Idlib after laying siege to it for weeks. The defector, Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal, becomes one of the most senior members of Assad���s regime to join the opposition during the 21-month-old revolt against his authoritarian rule. Al-Shallal appeared in a video aired on Arab TV late Tuesday saying that he was casting his lot with ������the people���s revolution.������ Nelson Mandela released from the hospital JOHANNESBURG (AP) ��� Former South African President Nelson Mandela was released Wednesday from the hospital after being treated for a lung infection and having gallstones removed, a government spokesman said. The 94-year-old antiapartheid icon will continue to receive medical care at home. Mandela had been in the hospital since Dec. 8. In recent days, officials have said he was improving and in good spirits, but doctors have taken extraordinary care with his health because of his age. Mandela was released Wednesday evening and will receive ������home-based high care������ at his residence in the Johannesburg neighborhood of Houghton until he fully recovers, said presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj. ������We thank the public and the media for the good wishes and for according Madiba and the family the necessary privacy,������ said Maharaj in a statement, using Mandela���s clan name, a term of affection. The statement requested that Mandela���s privacy continue to be respected ������in order to allow for the best possible conditions for full recovery.������ Bush���s fever rising, expresident on liquid diet HOUSTON (AP) ��� A ������stubborn������ fever that kept former President George H.W. Bush in a hospital over Christmas has gotten worse, and doctors have put him on a liquids-only diet, his spokesman said Wednesday. Jim McGrath, Bush���s spokesman in Houston, had said earlier in the day that the fever had gone away, but he later corrected himself. ������It���s an elevated fever, so it���s actually gone up in the last day or two,������ McGrath told The Associated Press. ������It���s a stubborn fever that won���t go away.������ Doctors at Methodist Hospital in Houston have run tests and are treating the fever with Tylenol, but they still haven���t nailed down a cause, McGrath said. Doctors also have put Bush on a liquid diet, though McGrath could not say why. The bronchitis-like cough that initially brought Bush to the hospital on Nov. 23 has improved, McGrath said. The 88-year-old is now coughing about once a day, he said. Killer left chilling note, death toll now 3 WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) ��� The ex-con turned sniper who killed two firefighters wanted to make sure his goodbye note was legible, typing out his desire to ������do what I like doing best, killing people������ before setting the house where he lived with his sister ablaze, police said. Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Tuesday that the 62-year-old loner, William Spengler, brought plenty of ammunition with him for three weapons including a military-style assault rifle as he set out on a quest to burn down his neighborhood just before sunrise on Christmas Eve. And when firefighters arrived to stop him, he unleashed a torrent of bullets, shattering the windshield of the fire truck that volunteer firefighter and police Lt. Michael Chiapperini, 43, drove to the scene. Fellow firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka, 19, who worked as a 911 dispatcher, was killed as well. Two other firefighters were struck by bullets, one in the pelvis and the other in the chest and knee. 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