(CNN) -- Ghassan Hitto once held court as an information technology manager in a safe Texas office. Now he's halfway across the world, in charge of a corner of hell. Hitto is the new head of the Syrian opposition's interim government. He'll use his ample and savvy management experience -- honed by his years as an executive in the IT field in Dallas and his activist work for his native Syria and Muslims -- to administer the large swaths of territory seized by rebels from the Bashar al-Assad government during the raging civil war. People who've worked with Hitto are proud of his achievement and say he'll do well.
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New head of Syrian opposition's interim government is Syrian-born, U.S.-educated
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Ghassan Hitto has lived and worked for years in Texas
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Some Syrians are suspicious of his support from the Muslim Brotherhood
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"He's one of those executives in a board room that impress you," says a community leader
At a protest last year in Texas, Walk for the Child of @placeholder, Hitto's passion against the al-Assad government was on bold display.