{"id":2039,"date":"2012-01-15T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T02:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2012-01-15T19:59:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T02:59:27","slug":"tough-times-for-the-free-syrian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"Tough Times for the Free Syrian Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York-<\/strong> A couple of notable videos came online today which I gleaned from the <a href=\"http:\/\/mar15.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Syrian Youth Movement <\/a>site. In the first, a German filmmaker snuck into Homs at great risk and links up with FSA rebels in Baba Amr. It aired on <a href=\"cnn.com\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> this weekend. The second, a Zeina Kohdr segment from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/\" target=\"_blank\">AJE<\/a> reports from a village in northern Lebanon where FSA members have sought refuge. Since it will be a short while before I return to this Middle East, I figured I might as well post some interesting work by others. <\/p>\n<p>One of the more interesting aspects for me in the two reports is how the geographically disparate rebel groupings can work toward a cohesive military goal other than the over simplified notion of ousting al-Assad. They face enormous obstacles without an internationalist intervention of some sort. If it weren&#8217;t for such action in Libya, that war would assuredly be dragging on. The obvious difference between the two scenarios is the Israel-Iran factor in relation to Syria. Intervening in Libya was much less complicated in that sense. 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