Meet the new commander of the Free Syrian Army: move over Rommel

""Gen. Haj Ali, the revolution’s new military top dog, hails from Hauran in southwest Syria. He was born in Khirbet Ghazaleh, Deraa Province, in 1954 and headed Syria’s National Defense College since 2008 when he defected to the opposition in early August.  Maj. Gen. Mohammed Hussein Haj Ali will head the Syrian National Army, which becomes the Syrian Revolution’s military arm.   

He is a Public Administration graduate of Damascus University, attended the former Soviet Union’s V. I. Lenin Military Academy in 1984-85 and holds a PhD in National Strategy from Egypt’s Nasser Higher Military Academy.""