Friday, August 10, 2012

It is a money revolution now

This reminds me about the Fath Movement: it had a slogan "revolution until victory" but when Arafat dumped Gulf money on the movement, the slogan became satirized as "revolution till the end of the month" (of course it rhymes in Arabic).   "He defected this year and was in exile in Turkey until returning to Syria several weeks ago. Once he was on the front lines, money from the exile Syrian National Council and the Free Syrian Army that had been going to individual militias began flowing through him as a way to centralize the finances under one command."