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Nir Rosen discusses the situation in Syria (YouTube)

After spending weeks in Syria, Nir Rosen provides his assessment of the Free Syrian Army and popular support for the protests.

Free army is mostly armed civilians .. chaotic, no central leadership.

The few defecting soldiers defected for sectarian reasons and in solidarity with their family members in Daraa or Hamaa. This is different from the common suggestion by Aljazeera or Amnesty international that these soldiers defected because their Syrian army officers ordered them to shoot “randomly” at women and children.

After support to the revolution swelled in Ramadan it is by now perhaps an estimated 50/50

 

 



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