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Q&A: Nir Rosen on Syria's armed opposition - Features - Al Jazeera English
Excerpt: "AJ: Who are the fighters - army defectors, armed civilians or "armed gangs"?
NR: The issue of defectors is a distraction. Armed resistance began long before defections started. While fighters are often portrayed in the media as defectors from the Syrian military, the majority are civilians who have taken up arms. The opposition believes it will have more legitimacy if fighters are dubbed "defectors", and described collectively as the Free Syrian Army.
They are also not armed gangs, as the regime and its supporters describe them. They are much more akin to a popular armed struggle or an insurgency. In fact, many Syrian revolutionaries use the term muqawama, ["resistance"] to describe themselves. This I find particularly ironic, as the Syrian regime and its supporters champion "resistance" (to Israel and the West) as the reason for their legitimacy, and the reason why they are being targeted by an alleged "foreign conspiracy" in the form of this uprising."
Apparently, as the FSA has been fighting with the Al Nusar front.
Syrian Opposition Call for No-Fly Zone, 8 October 2011
Proof?
Your point? How does that change the number of fighters?
Also the part about Syria breaking down into 3 regions put that into perspective. As what part of the Civilians are backing who.
Al Nusar is still outnumbered.[/QUOTE]
From your own link.
According to the SFA, 12,000 soldiers have joined their ranks, with 18 brigades set up in various Syria cities.
but 90 per cent of the army is Sunni and they are trying to make it sectarian by going in and killing Syrian civilians in Sunni areas,” said the SFA source, noting that the minority Alawite faith group still controls the majority of the heavy weaponry at the disposal of the Syrian army.
“But there will be no reprisals, as we also have Alawites in our ranks who oppose the [Bashar] al-Assad regime,” he added. <<<<<Only validation is a Sunni Rebel.....got anything else on any Alawites going against Assad?
Did you still need to see the links on how Al Nusra and others are Fighting the FSA and do you need the link with the FSA Commander saying that when Al Nusra comes they give them what they want.
Proof.....from your own link and the one I just got done posting up.
Also as to who the Civilians are backing who that also was just put up in post 175.
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