Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS Page #3

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Those groups came

on there "el muhadrim."

El muhadrim

means the immigrants,

The foreign fighters.

These groups fought alongside

each other around aleppo.

Ahmed:
Fighters came

3:
00 in the morning,

Sneaked inside aleppo.

Nobody knew

they were coming.

There were just,

like, in every corner,

You could see one fighter.

And then in the morning,

Two tanks started

shooting this neighborhood.

The fsa started shooting it.

They had only this rpg and

it was not enough for that tank.

The second day,

three tanks came.

They destroyed the

first one and then they

Destroyed the last one.

So the one in the

middle, just, like,

Surrendered himself.

Man:
Allahu akbar!

Allahu akbar!

Man:
Allahu akbar!

Ahmed:
In the same day,

when all this happened,

Most of the

people left aleppo and

They went to

the countryside.

Mahmoud al-basha: Hanano

military base was the biggest

Military base for

assad regime in aleppo city.

So when the fsa

took half of the city,

They decided to

attack this military base.

Ahmed:
In this military base,

there were thousands of weapons,

Warehouses

full of weapons.

So many groups,

people I know, friends,

Were going to hanano

military base and they were

Just taking weapons.

Man:
Then the

bombardments started.

Day and night, non-stop.

Sebastian junger: One of

the problems with letting a

Civil war go on

too long is that more

And more people

get involved.

It's a little bit like a

bar fight where all of a sudden,

Everyone's jumped in and is

throwing chairs at each other.

Syria became a civil war

in response to the violence

Of the government.

Eventually, iran got

involved through hezbollah

To support

the assad regime.

The kurds got involved.

Turkey got involved.

The arab gulf

states got involved.

Eventually, all the world

powers and all the regional

Powers had some investment

in the war in syria and in many

Cases were actively

involved in the fighting.

Once you get in a proxy fight,

so many people have such huge

Interests in the outcome that

it's almost impossible to stop.

President obama:
Obviously,

this is a very tough issue.

I have indicated repeatedly

that president al-assad has

Lost legitimacy that

he needs to step down.

So far, he hasn't gotten

the message and instead has

Doubled down in

violence on his own people.

I have, at this point, not

ordered military engagement in

The situation, but we have

been very clear that a red line

For us is we start

seeing a whole bunch of chemical

Weapons moving

around or being utilized.

That would

change my calculus.

That would change.

Robin yassin kassab:

When he said that,

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