Could be just as well a hacking specialist on State Department's or CIA's payroll who did it.
Could be the group is half made of people on CIA's payroll. Wasn't Private Manning ratted out
by a "hacker". Just because someone knows few things about computers doesn't make him
automatically moral or right.

Btw, a huge number have defected because of the brutality by the soldiers.

Apparently the FSA took out a very notorious sniper who had killed many - including women and children.

How the hell is sniping fair?

You do not convince anyone. Assad is a bastard just like his father.

Either way, it's facile to blithely say "if they want to attack." You do realize there is conscription in Syria, right? Syrian soldiers are sons of the people.

And by your logic, the FSA can also "expect to be attacked." And, for that matter, so can other non-state actors, which does include those nominally supportive of the state, but outside it. This conflict is highly sectarian. Many of the Sunni mosques are seriously agitating against Shiites, Alawi people, and Christians. And there have been Alawi attacks against Sunnis as well. This is about much more than Bashar Assad, himself a rather diminutive figure in all senses.

It is not logic, it is what it is, and it includes more actors than I care to point to.

And it is not just those you mentioned. But I will leave it at that, will not be even half way news until it is in the situation room.

who enjoys support of most of his people.

When the hell was Assad elected?

I guess it's really easy to win when you are the only candidate for president.

But there are elections, not what anybody half way educated on the issue would call open.

Why do you think this is the case? Have you looked into the ethnic alliances? I am sure you too can find the real explanation in five minutes or so... But I will point you in right direction allawi-Christian alliance and Syria.

Oh and I will spare you the rather graphic photos or videos...

I mean civil wars, all thoughts to the contrary, are not civil.

I know, crunchy and all that, but hey I have in my computer a few SANA releases too...you do know they are the government mouth pieces, right?

Is there an "Alawi-Christian alliance?" Only in a tactical sense, because they both face the real danger of Salafi extremism that would utterly decimate their communities.

That is why you got a christian defense minister and why they are also part of elite army units.

As to SANA, they have gotten really, and I mean this, really comical or transparent. Did you also follow Baghdad bob and believe him? His best momemt was when he claimed the Abrams in the distance were republican guard.

I think that would be helpful. Mainly SANA has opinion pieces, and then articles stating that roughly equal numbers of soldiers and armed opposition have been killed. There's a lot of stress of military casualties. I don't think any media in Syria is pretending that there isn't a crisis. Further, it's not as if the Syrian opposition is like the US army.

That train left the station a while ago.

And no, the FSA and the army share very Russian doctrine, anything else you'd like to know?

But did SANA mention that many conscripts have refused to report for duty...I guess it was an error in their part.

Don't worry, a lot of this is not in our media either, yet.