'Hundreds' of Syrian deserters in North Lebanon

"Under cover of darkness, in a shabby rented house in the northern Lebanese mountains, a dozen Syrian men huddle round a wood stove, candlelight flickering on their drawn faces. All of them claim to be defected soldiers,...This loose collection of defectors and armed civilians claims thousands of members and posts footage of attacks on military infrastructure on Facebook. But the men in north Lebanon, all of them Sunni Muslims, said that they lived in poverty and secrecy, numbering a few hundred at most, and had limited access to weapons, prompting questions about the capability of the organization to have a substantial impact on well-armed and organized Alawite-led Syrian security forces...  They receive no international help and had been visited by no military attaches, they said, although they would take arms, money or supplies from almost anyone if they offered it. ..."