Saturday, 28 September 2013

Dodging Bullets with Syrian Rebels Who Love Soccer and Adolf Hitler



 The Hitler headline is a bit misleading. Like the reference to a pawn in the paragraph about proxy war.

 ' “Yes, we are Islamists, because we believe in Islam. But we reject the Islam of the extremists! Those are crazy people,” Abu Ahmad says. After a moment he adds, “Of course they’re the only people who are helping us.” There is nodding on all sides.

 “I want a Syria in which everyone lives together in peace,” Amir says. “Sunnis, Shiites, Alavites, Kurds, Druze, Christians. And we don’t want to trade Assad for a new dictator. That’s not why we started the revolution.” '

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