عقيد منشق يحذر السلطات من إرسال جيشه بحال عدم إيقاف عملية دير الزور

I have read this important news Friday night. My source was "Syria Comment " (find it on Google) under the leadership of a Joshua Landis. This gentleman is not objective because his wife is an Alawite and himself is an admirer of Bashar.
Questions :
Why did it take Naharnet about 20 hours to publish this news?
Is it because of censorship? (self imposed or other )
Is it because Naharnet believes that Mr. Landis is not reliable?
Or is it because Naharnet thinks that this piece of information might have been fed to Landis by the Moukhabarat ? And some more verification was needed?
Thank you to help me understand.

If this is true then this will be the begining of the end to the syrian government.

by showing their faces, they mean business

This is the 3rd defection since the revolution began after Jisr al Shoughour and in Homs, the Syrian government has also arrested the head of the Baqqara tribe in Deir Ez Zor, tribes in Syria are armed and they won't put up with this sort of crackdown.

The Assad regime is just digging their own grave right now in Hama and Deir Ez Zor, the dumbest move they can do next is to launch an armed crackdown against the Kurds that way they can literally piss off the worst three regions to piss off in Syria