This former US Marine has absolutely no backround or knowledge of the Middle East. He reports this whole article about one Syrian rebel who makes all sort of fantastic claims without verifying any of his claims whatsoever. The dude revolutionary poses to Chivers as a secular moderate but also founds a militia withb Abdullah Azzam name. Chivers was hanging out with a BEN Ladenite and he didnt even know it. Wait. He has a best Alawite friend who savagely evicted him from his home. But oddly he stayed in. Touch with him by phone. Chivers in passing mentions that the Alawite friend could not be reached. Also, the destruction of Alawite villages was also by Syrian regimr according to this rebel. I dont understand. If Syrian regime forces are behind all killing and destructuon in Syria do the rebels ever manage to fire a gun? I mean they never kill. If there is a media awaed for lazy journalism Chivers deserves it hands down.