From Amir: ""One Hezbollah official, who asked to be identified only as
Hassan because he wasn’t authorized to
discuss the group's plans with a reporter, said he himself would travel soon to
Aleppo, Syria's second largest city, where government and rebel forces have been
in a stalemate for the past 10 months. Hassan made it clear that religious
differences between the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah and the mostly Sunni Muslim
rebels in Syria were vital to its ability to find men willing to fight in Syria.
"We're recruiting," Hassan said. "The biggest mistake (the rebels) in Syria made
is insulting our beliefs. That's the most dangerous thing you can do."
"
"The interview with the fighter, who used the pseudonym Dany because the group's media department hadn't authorized him to discuss such matters, offered a chilling window into the intractability of the Syrian war." "Dany's reasons for fighting in Syria sounded quite similar to one of the U.S. government's rationales for invading Iraq 10 years ago: the need to stop Sunni extremists."
"The interview with the fighter, who used the pseudonym Dany because the group's media department hadn't authorized him to discuss such matters, offered a chilling window into the intractability of the Syrian war." "Dany's reasons for fighting in Syria sounded quite similar to one of the U.S. government's rationales for invading Iraq 10 years ago: the need to stop Sunni extremists."
