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| Turkey training rebels, says FSA fighter |
| 2012-08-05 |
| [BBC] Just a few months ago, Thwaiba Kanafani was leading a normal life with her husband, six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter in Canada. An engineer by training, she had been working in the oil industry. But now she has left all that behind. When we met up in the city of Adana in southern Turkey, she had just fled across the border from the Syrian city of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... after a mission with rebel forces that went wrong. Two male colleagues who were acting as her minders, were killed. At the end of June she joined the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and was given a particularly dangerous role to fulfil. As a woman she has able to move more easily around the streets of Aleppo than the men. "Lots of women are working with me and we do a lot of spying work," she says. "We usually check the locations of regime people [military forces] and check where would be the best points to locate the Free Syrian Army. "We also spy on high-ranking people in the government so we can help the FSA arrest and capture them." In the midst of all this, she speaks on the phone with her family every day to reassure them she is fine. "I wonder why I am not afraid of being shot through the head," she says pointing to her forehead. |
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