LE FIGARO, FRANCE Lancés le 23 septembre, les bombardements ont dabord été salués par lopposition syrienne. Quinze jours plus tard, le bilan savère peu encourageant. Launched on September 23, the bombings were initially welcomed by the Syrian opposition. Fifteen days later, the picture is not very encouraging. Abdel Rahman remembers. He remembers those days of hope in 2011 when, as a lieutenant in the Syrian army, he watched with a mixture of awe and envy all those peaceful demonstrators scroll for democracy. He remembers that morning in 2012 when, exasperated by the extreme brutality of the regime, he gave her apron to join the opposition. He remembers, too, the death of his brother, killed by Assads soldiers, while with his friends, forced to take up arms to defend himself, he begged in vain for the West to help them fight against the tyrant of Damascus. Three years - and nearly 200,000 deaths - later, the anti-Bashar fighter carries a particularly bitter look at the coalition strikes against terrorists Daech. Too late, uncoordinated, against-productive, he protested, via Skype, from a town near the Syrian capital on.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 04:08:59 +0000