"...Awdeh said the rebellion consists of small units that developed spontaneously around the country during the anti-government uprising in the past year but have little contact with either the military officers in Turkey who call themselves the Free Syrian Army or the civilian-led SNC.He speaks contemptuously of defected Col. Riad al Assad, the ostensible leader of the FSA. "I know him personally," Awdeh said. "He's stupid, he's inarticulate and he's not a senior officer."
Awdeh said no one sent him on his first mission, and no one supported him. "I was alone," he said, and he knew he could die. "As a Muslim, if I get killed, it will be as a martyr."..."
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