Date of the post – 12/31/2013. The reporter appears to have written from the Syrian-Turkish border and patched together information perhaps less accessible through the majors. On foreign fighters in Syria, this stood out: “When they choose a brigade (khatiba) they seem don’t care about how much radical is it but how well armed is. A mindset that only if you has been in Syria, you can understand. “
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The civil war in Syria is becoming a big game, where faith, money, external interests and summary executions are different sides of the same shadow: nobody can control or stop the war
Pierre Chiartano – Azaz/Syria. Bab el Salam is a gate to paradise or a quick entry to hell, it depends what side you come from. Just 5 kilometers south of the turkish city of Kilis and 8 kilometers north of Azaz, a syrian rural town, now in hands of Islamic state in Iraq and Levant, a new brand of al Qaeda network in Syria. I walked about 15 minutes trough the long road between the turkish and the syrian crossborder gate, before a green bus with no passengers on board stop to get me on. Nobody is entering in Syria in this period. Turkish police border officers told me like a mantra: “don’t go, it is dangerous even…
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