Hundreds of Arab nationalists from across the region have formed a volunteer militia force to fight in Syria on behalf of Bashar al-Assad’s government and patriotic military forces
#Syria: Arab Nationalist Guard fighters in Mleha, #Damascus province, : http://twitter.com/ajaltamimi/status/462750255440617473/photo/1
Arab nationalists take up arms in the battle for Syria
Hundreds of Arab nationalists from across the region have formed their own volunteer militia force, the Arab Nationalist Guard (ANG), to fight in Syria on behalf of Bashar al-Assad’s government and military forces.
“I was watching TV and my eyes fell upon an American flag fluttering amid crowds in, at the time, the opposition stronghold town of Hama,” Nidal, a 25-year-old Arab nationalist from Lebanon and subsequent fighter for the ANG, told Al-Akhbar.
“Can you imagine the humiliation and the utter disgust I felt when I saw the [American] flag waving in the breeze in Syria?”
As Nidal flicked the end of his cigarette into the ashtray, he recited Gamal Abdel Nasser’s, Egypt’s first president and pan-Arab leader, famous words: “If America is satisfied with me, know that I’m…
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