Outmatched Rebels Gain Ground Amid Crackdown -- Spiegel OnlineAs President Bashar Assad continues his brutal efforts to maintain power, Syria's rebellion has turned into a full-fledged civil war. Conditions are dire, but the outnumbered rebels report making progress. Eyewitnesses described the front lines for SPIEGEL.
It is a mistake to believe that dead people don't talk. They talk nonstop in Syria, at least on the telephone. "It's the last greeting from our martyrs," says one of the young organizers of the resistance movement in a suburb of Damascus, as people around him discuss battles and changing fronts without fear that intelligence agents will monitor on their conversations. That's because the insurgents are using phones that contain the SIM cards of dead people. They can no longer be killed, the man says calmly.
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My Comment: Assad has lost the support of much of the Syrian people .... with only his security and intelligence apparatus keeping him in power. But attrition and desertion will eat away at this base, and with the rebels getting better armed and organized .... as well as more determined as the body count increases .... there will be a tipping point before his house of cards collapses.
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