"A rebel commander, based near Damascus and familiar with the
unit which buckled, said its failure had been due to its leaders having
preferred using their local power to get rich rather than fighting Assad - a
common accusation among the fractious rebels: "Qatar's bet ... failed especially
in the Wadi al-Deif battle. The regime managed to break through them after they
became the new local warlords, caring for money and power not the cause," the
senior commander told Reuters. That battlefield collapse infuriated Qatar's
allies in the anti-Assad alliance."