Special Report: Syria's Islamists seize control as moderates dither
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...95I0BC20130619
"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......."
"Our" side?