Islamister i Syrien tar kontroll över de mera moderata

Special Report: Syria's Islamists seize control as moderates dither

By Oliver Holmes and Alexander Dziadosz. ALEPPO, Syria | Wed Jun 19, 2013

- As the Syrian civil war got under way, a former electrician who calls himself Sheikh Omar built up a brigade of rebel fighters. In two years of struggle against President Bashar al-Assad, they came to number 2,000 men, he said, here in the northern city of Aleppo. Then, virtually overnight, they collapsed.