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Muhammed Muheisen / AP
Ammar Aldeerani, 21, a defected soldier from the Syrian security forces
As they waited to return to the fight against government forces, rebels at a house in Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo posed for portraits for AP photographer Muhammed Muheisen. In their former lives, before the war, they were a construction worker, a farmer, even a librarian. Two of them are former government soldiers.
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Hamzah Alhassan, 25, a former blacksmith
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Abu Muslim, 30, a former librarian
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Shadi Farrouh, 28, a former construction worker
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Abu Faris, 28, a defected officer from the Syrian security forces
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Ahmad Hussein, 22, a former factory worker
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Abu Bara', 30, a former farmer
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Very sad. These people desperately want some sort of self-determination for their country. Who can blame them?
This is a dark chapter in American history. If Aleppo falls, the very first action will be the massacre of Armenians as payment in kind to Turkey. The insurgents murder every Alawite or Christian they capture. If the regime loses Aleppo, the Sunni extremists will round up the Armenians, take them to Kesab and kill them. The FSA in Aleppo has just massacred another large batch of prisoners, after promising them mercy! The Free Syrian Army, are a loathsome coalition of death squads. They're the very worse, they target deliberately hospitals.
terrors equal rebels, you are terrors, you destroyed a beautiful Syria, killed Christians and destroyed their houses
and you want give it to mslim brother hood dirty politics.
The one thing that i noticed from these pictures is that all the men are bearded. Several you can tell just recently started to grow beards, the mustache is shaved so it is not out of availability of shaving items. I believe this points to radical Islam as a driving force in this rebellion.
Have we as a planet finally found the 'Balance' of Justice with the Syrian Rebels to vs. 'Al-Queada?'