The “Free Syrian Army” Challenges Assad: The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the rebel force fighting Syria's President Bashar Assad, has included "Raising the flag on Iwo Jima" – depicting the bravery of U.S. Marines in World War II – on its...
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Most important, the rebels have secured a formidable ally: Turkey. Indeed, after having had a brief “honeymoon” with Assad, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has chosen not only to distance himself from the Syrian Alawite regime, but has provided all the facilities for the opposition forces on its territory, which serves both as a refuge and as an area of organization, a country funds can be raised. The official FSA website even gives the details of bank accounts in Turkish banks.
The cracks in the Syrian regime’s structure, which were invisible or non-existent at the beginning of the protest, have become clearer. The Assad regime has always had to face opposition forces and has managed over the years to ignore them officially while fighting them behind the scenes. The innovation today is that dissident Syrian officers have organized into a structure – the FSA – which is fighting the regime openly.
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