Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
cling to power, three years after the eruption of the bloody civil war that has claimed the lives of more than 90,000 people. CNN news hound Fred Pleitgen accompanied the snipers during a day of fierce battles in the Damascus suburb of Yarmouk.
"We're on the front line with Paleostinians fighting for the Assad regime. Snipers do much of the fighting, and death can come any second," Pleitgen says in a video released by CNN.
Yarmouk, which was set up by the Assad regime as a Paleostinian refugee camp decades ago, "bears the scars of war," the CNN news hound says.
Pleitgen then asks the commander of the snipers unit who his enemy is. "They are mostly Islamists from al-Qaeda and Jabhat al-Nusra; mostly foreigners from the Emirates, Afghanistan and Pakistain, but also Syrians and Paleostinians," says the commander.