Isis in Syria: General reveals the lack of communication with the US - and his country's awkward relationship with their allies-by-default

 

 So this is where Fisk gets all his news. The idea that Assad's forces let go or reintegrated all those who defected to the FSA would be laughable to any actual reporter. As would the idea that the US are putting any faith in them whatsoever. As Scott Lucas* put it, what happened to Robert Fisk?

'As for the FSA into which the US put so much faith, he laughs. "There may be some in Idlib and near Deraa. There were soldiers and some officers who defected from the Syrian army,” he said. “Some asked to come back and are in our army again. Others returned and we sent them home.” '
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcHYfWVWiXI]