SYRIAN REBELS : REPROBATES, OUTLAWS AND CRIMINALS http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/19/us-syria-rebels-islamists-specialreport-idUSBRE95I0BC20130619
Syria's war began with peaceful protests against Assad in March 2011 and turned into an armed rebellion a few months later following a deadly crackdown. Most of the rebel groups in Syria were formed locally and have little coordination with others. The country is dotted with bands made up of army defectors, farmers, engineers and even former criminals.Many pledge allegiance to the notion of a unified Free Syrian Army (FSA). But on the ground there is little evidence to suggest the FSA actually exists as a body at all.Sheikh Omar told the story of his brigade while sitting in a cramped room at his headquarters, a small one-storey building surrounded by olive tree fields in Aleppo province. Wrapped around his chest he wore a leather bandolier that held two pistols, grips pointing outwards, ready to be drawn by crossing his arms.He said he was from a poor background in rural Aleppo province. When he and a handful of others had started a rebel group to oppose Assad, fear had made it hard to recruit. The rich and law-abiding were scared. [[[[Only outlaws and reprobates would join him at first.]]]]]]"We were looking for good people. [[[[[But who was willing to work for me and help me? Those who used to go to bars, to fight with people and steal. Those are the people who allied with me and fought against the regime."]]]]] As he spoke some of his remaining fighters tried to interject; he silenced them, saying he wanted to be honest. [[[LOOTING]]] Ghurabaa al-Sham started with modest aims, Omar said. They would enter small police stations and negotiate a handover of weapons in return for free passage out of the area for the police.[ed note:they admitt they were initially a band of outlaws criminals went to small police stations negotiated policce handing ove rtheir weapons and gave them safe exit(bs claim most police were slaugthered we all know)then their ranks grew to 2000.how?they released all criminals within police stations they raided of course!!!
[[[[But their numbers grew to 2,000 men]]]], he said, and they fought battles to take border posts with Turkey and were one of the first rebel brigades to move into Aleppo, Syria's most populous city with 2.5 million inhabitants.More than half of the city fell to the rebels, but Assad's army pushed back, fighting street by street for months. A stalemate ensued. Very little progress has been made from either side for almost a year.[[[[[Where the government forces did cede ground, Aleppo's residents did not welcome the rebels with open arms. Most fighters were poor rural people from the countryside and the residents of Aleppo say they stole. Omar acknowledged this happened."Our members in Aleppo were stealing openly. Others stole everything and were taking Syria's goods to sell outside the country. ]]]]]]I was against any bad action committed by Ghurabaa al-Sham. However, things happened and opinion turned against us," he said as his men squirmed in their seats, uncomfortable with his words.Ghurabaa al-Sham was not the only group to take the law into its own hands.
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ZIONIST WINEP AGENT DECLARES AL NUSRA (AL QAEDA AFFILIATES) FAIR AND NOT CORRUPT
ISLAMIST ARBITERS
The Islamists are more energetic and better organized. The main two hardline groups to emerge in Syria are Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra, an [[[[[[al Qaeda offshoot that has claimed responsibility for dozens of suicide bombings, including several in Damascus in which civilians were killed.]]]]]]][[[[[[Aaron Zelin, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who researches Islamic militants, said the main reason groups such as Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham have become popular is because of the social provisions they supply. "They are fair arbiters and not corrupt."]]]]]]
[ED NOTE ALSO READ... SYRIA REBEL LEADER :OUR INSURGENCIES ARE CORRUPT,THIEVES ,LOOTERS,CRIMINALS! http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2013/02/syria-rebel-leader-our-insurgencies-are.html