Running A Civil War By Cell Phone

Free Syrian Army fighters. Courtesy photo

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Running a civil war by cell phone

Yahya Mhebeldin was a tailor in Al Qusayr, a city in western Syria near Homs. Then in the spring of 2011, mass demonstrations demanding the end of Pres. Bashar Al Assad’s dictatorial rule sparked a civil war. Mhebeldin, 29, became an opposition fighter, commanding a growing force of local men fighting to defend their neighborhood from government troops and their allies.

Badly wounded at the height of the fighting five months ago, today Mhebeldin is in a hospital in northern Lebanon, where he continues to lead his men—and an arsenal of captured tanks—relaying commands via a battery of cell phones resting on his pillow.

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My Comment: An excellent on the ground report in Syria. Read it all.