Homs has been at the centre of protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad in recent weeks [Reuters]In Syria, Defectors Form Dissident Army In Sign Uprising May Be Entering New Phase -- Washington Post
WADI KHALED, Lebanon — A group of defectors calling themselves the Free Syrian Army is attempting the first effort to organize an armed challenge to President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, signaling what some hope and others fear may be a new phase in what has been an overwhelmingly peaceful Syrian protest movement.
For now, the shadowy entity seems mostly to consist of some big ambitions, a Facebook page and a relatively small number of defected soldiers and officers who have taken refuge on the borderlands of Turkey and Lebanon or among civilians in Syria’s cities.
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My Comment: More violence and bloodshed must occur before the unrest in Syria morphs into a civil war .... but with the economy degrading further and violence from the regime increasing every day .... that day may be sooner than we think.