Members of the FSA chant slogans against Bashar al-Assad in the Aleppo province. Many fighters complain they are no longer battling for freedom Photo: Reuters
Syria Dispatch: From Band Of Brothers To Princes Of War -- The Telegraph
The Free Syrian Army began as a simple group of fighters battling Assad. But Ruth Sherlock, in Antakya, finds their mission is now making millions from bribery and extortion.
The Free Syrian Army commander leant against the door of his four-wheel drive BMW X5 with tinted windows and watched as his men waded through the river on the Syrian border moving the barrels of smuggled petroleum to Turkey.
Feeling the smooth wedge of American bank notes he had just been given in exchange, he was suddenly proud of everything he had become.
In three short years he had risen from peasant to war lord: from a seller of cigarettes on the street of a provincial village to the ruler of a province, with a rebel group to man his checkpoints and control these lucrative smuggling routes.
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My Comment: This is what happens in a failed state .... and after three years of civil war .... Syria has definitely become a failed state divided along sectarian lines.
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'This is what happens in a "Failed State" .... and after three years of civil war [called Occupy Wall Street: 99% vs 1%] anyone working as a lowly peasant and Waiter at an American "Cheesecake Factory" gets a FREE BMW as a newly promoted Manager.... [America like] Syria has definitely become a FAILED STATE divided along sectarian [and virulently racial] lines.'
So, really, WND Editor, which "Failed State" are you talking about?
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