00:00:01:14 , 00:00:20:17 , Almost three years since the beginning of the uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, |

the Civil War is still on going, but the reality on the ground indicates the | breakout of a new conflict on the opposition's side. |

 

The Free Syrian Army (FSA), a more moderate and secular part of the opposition, has been | undermined by more radical groups such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), | a group with links to al-Qaeda.

 

 

00:00:22:01 , 00:00:38:08 , Since spring 2013, after most of the areas in the Northern Syria were liberated, | many foreign fighters began to arrive, joining ISIL and imposing | their harsh laws. They consider the FSA infidels. |

 

 

The growing power of groups like ISIL, have convinced many rebel fighters | to cross the border and seek refuge in Turkey.

 

 

00:00:38:08 , 00:00:43:04 , SYRIA - TURKMEN MOUNTAINS | April 2013

 

00:00:43:11 , 00:00:47:12 , Abu Baseer, | Commander of the brigade | al-Izz bin Abdelsalam.

 

00:00:44:11 , 00:00:47:07 , In the worst, worst, worst

 

00:00:47:15 , 00:00:50:00 , possible outcome,

 

00:00:50:06 , 00:00:51:12 , the Syria of the future

 

00:00:52:11 , 00:00:55:00 , will be a lot better,

 

00:00:55:01 , 00:00:59:02 , than when it was at the time of Assad and his regime.

 

 

00:00:59:03 , 00:01:03:24 , TURKEY - MERSIN | December 2013

 

 

 

 

00:01:06:23 , 00:01:09:11 , There is a main reason that is very big

 

00:01:09:24 , 00:01:12:10 , which was the reason for us to come here.

 

00:01:13:01 , 00:01:17:22 , We were in a battalion that was known | in the Turkmen mountains.

 

00:01:19:10 , 00:01:23:02 , They assassinated the commander Abu Baseer.

 

00:01:25:02 , 00:01:26:00 , Who killed him?

 

00:01:27:15 , 00:01:30:10 , ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant).

 

00:01:31:06 , 00:01:35:19 , SYRIA - TURKMEN MOUNTAINS | 11 July 2013

 

00:01:37:07 , 00:02:00:10 , For a year and a half the Free Syrian Army | brigade al-Izz bin Abdelsalam has fought | on the Turkmen Mountains in the | Latakia Province.

 

00:01:46:18 , 00:02:00:10 , On 11 July 2013 their commander Kamal Yussef Hamman, also known as Abu Baseer, | was killed by ISIL by a shot to the head.

 

 

00:02:11:02 , 00:02:25:11 , The fighters in the 'al-Izz bin Abdelsalam' were among the first to take up arms | against the regime in Latakia province. | Most of the fighters have now put down their weapons because the realized the | values for which they had sacrificed so much for over the last three years, had | completely changed.

 

00:02:25:12 , 00:02:30:07 , SYRIA - TURKMEN MOUNTAINS | Spring 2013

 

00:02:30:17 , 00:02:31:18 , I am married,

 

00:02:32:07 , 00:02:33:10 , I have children.

 

00:02:35:10 , 00:02:36:13 , I own a shop.

 

00:02:38:11 , 00:02:39:23 , I had a car.

 

00:02:45:12 , 00:02:50:02 , Everything was lost when we went out to protest | on the first day of the revolution.

 

00:02:52:04 , 00:02:55:11 , We lost everything we owned.

 

00:03:00:00 , 00:03:02:04 , Revolution in Tunisia in 18 days.

 

00:03:02:17 , 00:03:04:24 , Revolution in Egypt in 28 days.

 

00:03:05:11 , 00:03:08:05 , We thought 'ok, we'll fight for a few days and it'll be over'.

 

00:03:09:01 , 00:03:10:23 , However, we were surprised to learn that it was not true.

 

00:03:11:06 , 00:03:12:16 , But I'll tell you one thing:

 

00:03:12:17 , 00:03:14:15 , to this day we still have the same hopes.

 

00:03:15:10 , 00:03:18:08 , I mean, to this day, myself and all the revolutionaries

 

00:03:18:11 , 00:03:20:09 , are certain that the regime will fall soon.

 

00:03:20:10 , 00:03:21:19 , We just don't know how soon.

 

 

00:03:24:17 , 00:03:26:06 , It's launching.

 

00:03:26:24 , 00:03:30:17 , It's high up, high, high. | It has launched. Has it launched? It has launched.

 

00:03:37:08 , 00:03:38:16 , God is great.

 

00:03:40:20 , 00:03:41:21 , God is great.

 

00:03:48:15 , 00:03:50:07 , God is great.

 

00:03:57:06 , 00:04:01:17 , TURKEY - MERSIN | 4.30AM - December 2013

 

 

00:04:01:18 , 00:04:03:10 , After the assassination of Abu Baseer,

 

00:04:03:22 ,00:04:09:20 , the people started fearing them (ISIL) | and thinking about consequences.

 

00:04:10:06 , 00:04:12:06 , The people started withdrawing.

 

00:04:14:14 , 00:04:24:18 , We are going to work. | We are now in Mersin in a village called Karaduvar.

 

00:04:25:11 , 00:04:31:00 , Now we are going into the sea to capture fish.

 

00:04:32:04 , 00:04:36:13 , We are settling out to work, we are leaving now at 5am.

 

00:04:36:14 , 00:04:43:04 , We make our way back until around 6 or 7pm | so in about 13-14 hours.

 

00:04:43:05 , 00:04:48:24 , We lift the fish, and than we head back home.

 

00:04:50:11 , 00:04:53:09 , That's how the days are passing by now.

 

00:04:54:09 , 00:04:57:12 , I stayed 3 months after the death of Abu Baseer.

 

00:04:59:08 , 00:05:07:13 , However because of our disgust of these Islamists | that you are speaking about

 

00:05:08:06 , 00:05:12:20 , that do things that aren't ethical at all.

 

00:05:14:06 , 00:05:19:10 , Imagine yourself coming to your country, | this is your grounds and your home

 

00:05:20:18 , 00:05:22:24 , and you have to leave whilst they are inside.

 

00:05:25:19 , 00:05:27:14 , Shall we clean it now or leave it for a bit?

 

00:05:28:05 , 00:05:29:22 , Clean it brother, clean it.

 

00:05:32:17 , 00:05:35:04 , Write: not a spare part.

 

00:05:37:04 , 00:05:38:24 , This is a spare part if you want. | Where is it?

 

00:05:41:06 , 00:05:43:14 , There is nothing more than this bent spare part, why?

 

00:05:46:11 , 00:05:48:22 , To advance we need many weapons.

 

00:05:48:23 , 00:05:50:12 , Where will they come from?

 

00:05:50:18 , 00:05:53:01 , They must come from those called | 'the friends of Syria'.

 

00:05:54:00 , 00:06:00:16 , I came here with not one Lira.

 

00:06:01:24 , 00:06:10:02 , No house, no money for the rent, I rented a house | with the money that my wife brought.

 

00:06:11:05 , 00:06:14:00 , I stayed 2 months here without furniture.

 

00:06:15:19 , 00:06:18:19 , Here the life doesn't have any taste whatsoever.

 

00:06:23:01 , 00:06:29:06 , Everything in Syria is becoming liable to | bombing or destruction.

 

00:06:29:22 , 00:06:32:17 , You see a helicopter flying overhead every morning, and it wakes us up

 

00:06:33:04 , 00:06:35:17 , and goes away in the evening. And MIGs.

 

00:06:35:19 , 00:06:38:11 , Glorify Him. God is great.

 

00:06:40:20 , 00:06:43:12 , God is great. | The barrel has been dropped.

 

00:06:48:21 , 00:06:50:07 , Film, film.

 

00:06:54:11 , 00:06:55:11 , Where is the plane?

 

00:06:55:15 , 00:06:56:10 , It's gone.

 

00:06:56:23 , 00:06:57:24 , God is great.

 

00:06:59:21 , 00:07:02:23 , When we upraised we upraised in order to topple | the Syrian regime, Bashar Alassad.

 

00:07:03:02 , 00:07:10:06 , To topple him down and to get rid of the oppression | he has created in the country.

 

00:07:11:07 , 00:07:15:06 , Afterwards the people started coming in from outside.

 

00:07:16:09 , 00:07:21:23 , People from Libya made their way etc, | and then ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra was formed.

 

00:07:22:09 , 00:07:25:03 , Especially ISIL which is creating many problems in the mountain.

 

00:07:25:04 , 00:07:31:24 , Anyone who would wear a t-shirt that is fashion like is an infidel.

 

00:07:32:07 , 00:07:34:17 , They will call anyone an infidel.

 

00:07:35:17 , 00:07:40:20 , Their judgement is all by all for themselves | forgetting that Allah is the righteous judge.

 

00:07:47:04 , 00:07:52:10 , This food is called hashkaloz with nuts | that only Abu Khaled knows.

 

00:07:52:12 , 00:07:53:07 , No, this is Chanke!

 

00:07:53:08 , 00:07:54:15 , No, sorry, it's Chanke.

 

00:07:55:23 , 00:08:02:17 , Chanke is made of... a little Chanke | I don't know what it is but it's called Chanke.

 

00:08:11:24 , 00:08:14:11 , Tomorrow we'll make a programme on the BBC.

 

00:08:23:10 , 00:08:27:01 , Today I flirted with a girl on a tractor.

 

00:08:27:02 , 00:08:28:01 , On a tractor?

 

00:08:28:02 , 00:08:30:02 , She was sitting behind her parents.

 

00:08:32:17 , 00:08:34:01 , I reached her house even.

 

00:08:34:18 , 00:08:41:07 , She threw me her number but it was a Turkish number.

 

00:08:44:13 , 00:08:46:10 , Now what are you doing in Turkey?

 

00:08:46:14 , 00:08:48:21 , I am working on fixing printers.

 

00:08:48:22 , 00:08:52:16 , My usual job was to fix pc's now I do both | at the same time.

 

00:08:52:23 ,00:08:54:17 , How long have you been away from the mountains?

 

00:08:54:18 , 00:08:56:04 , It's been three months.

 

00:08:57:00 , 00:09:00:18 , Three months, every single day thinking about returning.

 

00:09:01:14 , 00:09:05:21 , How long did it take you to decide to stop and go?

 

00:09:06:15 , 00:09:13:12 , I stayed one month in the mountains thinking maybe | a new thing would happen or a new commander.

 

00:09:14:11 , 00:09:19:13 , Liberate a little, I stayed a month sitting down, | every single day sitting down.

 

00:09:19:14 , 00:09:22:12 , Eating and drinking with nothing new.

 

00:09:24:08 , 00:09:29:01 , Abu el-Abed, leave it outside a moment, | may I?

 

00:09:30:02 , 00:09:31:01 , Trousers and a vest.

 

00:09:31:02 , 00:09:33:03 , It's called underwear.

 

00:09:33:19 , 00:09:35:18 , For the magazine you have to sign here.

 

00:09:36:13 , 00:09:38:16 , Give him a sniper gun with 100 bullets.

 

00:09:39:04 , 00:09:40:11 , Be careful how you take it apart.

 

00:09:40:12 , 00:09:42:04 , You have to fix it, you understand?

 

00:09:45:00 , 00:09:46:20 , Now everyone has got one (weapon).

 

00:09:52:16 , 00:09:55:16 , Now men I want to say something to you. | After you have joined us

 

00:09:55:18 , 00:10:00:21 , there are some brigade rules and I don't know if the guys | who brought you here told you about them.

 

00:10:02:04 , 00:10:03:15 , Those who neglect their prayers

 

00:10:03:23 , 00:10:05:14 , will be discharged from the brigade.

 

00:10:05:23 , 00:10:08:10 , You will not go hungry if God wills it.

 

00:10:08:16 , 00:10:10:19 , If you go hungry it means that we all go hungry.

 

00:10:10:20 , 00:10:13:06 , People who go hungry and people who do not go hungry do not exist.

 

00:10:13:07 , 00:10:14:04 , This is your right.

 

00:10:14:07 , 00:10:15:15 , I want to go and visit my family?

 

00:10:15:23 , 00:10:18:11 , You will have a rest period of a couple of days | to visit your family.

 

00:10:18:14 , 00:10:20:01 , These are your rights.

 

00:10:24:06 , 00:10:26:08 , We have come here on our way to martyrdom.

 

00:10:26:19 , 00:10:28:21 , Not for Bashar but for our own dignity.

 

00:10:29:15 , 00:10:32:00 , Our martyrs have become numbers on the television.

 

00:10:32:14 , 00:10:34:20 , Every day 150-200 martyrs.

 

00:10:34:22 , 00:10:39:02 , We will all be martyrs, we will all engage in jihad | and we will be martyrs if God wills it.

 

00:10:39:23 , 00:10:45:20 , Those in the refugee camps want money, not jihad.

 

00:10:46:18 , 00:10:48:18 , We were all walking down the wrong road.

 

00:10:58:19 , 00:10:59:08 , Hey.

 

00:10:59:15 , 00:11:01:05 , We are cutting our hair son of a bitch.

 

00:11:09:22 , 00:11:11:18 , At the beginning of the revolution

 

00:11:12:02 , 00:11:14:22 , we were civilians and we went to the protests every day.

 

00:11:16:03 , 00:11:20:05 , It's been 6 or 7 months since the beginning of the revolution, | since we protested every day.

 

00:11:20:06 , 00:11:22:01 , Then we were called up for enlistment.

 

00:11:22:03 , 00:11:23:14 , My brother and I.

 

00:11:24:07 , 00:11:26:13 , My father said: don't go, try to defer it.

 

00:11:26:23 , 00:11:28:17 , I said no, I want to go.

 

00:11:29:16 , 00:11:33:20 , Everyone told me not to go, but I said that | I would go, because I intended to desert.

 

00:11:33:22 , 00:11:36:01 , I wanted to train and then desert, with my weapons.

 

00:11:36:20 , 00:11:39:07 , I answered and I went.

 

00:11:39:19 , 00:11:41:14 , I stayed for around 4 months

 

00:11:41:23 , 00:11:45:00 , then I deserted, I deserted with my weapons.

 

00:11:50:24 , 00:11:56:06 , Anyway those carrying out the massacres are not only | Alawites. There are also Sunnis.

 

00:11:57:17 , 00:12:01:04 , I swear you see more Sunnis than Alawites | that are killing people.

 

00:12:07:11 ,00:12:10:05 , How many people said that on the al-Asab tower | they were all Alawites?

 

00:12:10:20 , 00:12:12:24 , That's why they sent them up looking | on the Kurdish mountains.

 

00:12:13:02 , 00:12:15:05 , We went up to search for them one by one.

 

00:12:15:15 , 00:12:17:01 , The majority of them were from Idlib.

 

00:12:17:13 , 00:12:18:16 , Almost all of them from Idlib.

 

00:12:18:17 , 00:12:21:09 , From where? Maarrat al-Nu'man.

 

00:12:24:09 , 00:12:25:17 , All Sunnis.

 

00:12:26:06 , 00:12:27:24 , They had overtaken the Kurdish mountains.

 

00:12:28:00 , 00:12:29:08 , All Sunnis.

 

00:12:47:15 , 00:12:58:09 , Don't you expect that the power the ISIL has | is because of the corruption in the FSA?

 

00:12:58:21 , 00:13:01:18 , There is corruption, but go to the corrupted | don't go on anyone.

 

00:13:03:03 , 00:13:09:19 , They started killing the people that aren't corrupted | and not the corrupted.

 

00:13:11:05 , 00:13:17:09 , The corrupted are still down there, | no one is speaking to them.

 

00:13:18:05 , 00:13:20:23 , And all the people that were working right are all being killed.

 

00:13:44:23 , 00:13:47:06 , I can never sleep before the attack.

 

00:13:48:01 , 00:13:50:18 , Some say goodbye to everyone on the phone.

 

00:13:51:10 , 00:13:54:07 , I don't say goodbye to anyone.

 

00:13:58:14 , 00:14:04:13 , Is there anything better that you are fighting | for the sake of Allah and then leave this fight?

 

00:14:04:14 , 00:14:07:18 , How down would you really feel?

 

00:14:08:24 , 00:14:17:19 , You are doing Jihad, we used to be really happy | and not worry about anything in this whole world.

 

00:14:19:03 , 00:14:22:06 , The people used to run all around, and we used to laugh.

 

00:14:23:18 , 00:14:31:02 , but now take look, since 4.30am until 8.30pm still working.

 

00:14:35:04 , 00:14:37:13 , Don't think you are going to fight,

 

00:14:37:15 , 00:14:40:04 , Imagine you are only going on a reconnaissance mission.

 

00:14:40:13 , 00:14:42:07 , If the situation arises...

 

00:14:42:09 , 00:14:46:11 , Of course we will shoot into the air with the 23 mm.

 

00:14:46:18 , 00:14:50:23 , We will use snipers.

 

00:14:52:01 , 00:14:54:18 , They have killed (ISIL) the sound of equality.

 

00:14:56:01 , 00:15:01:00 , The regime tries to satanise the revolution

 

00:15:01:01 , 00:15:06:08 , and the Islamist battalions tries to force | an agenda that is out of reach for us.

 

00:15:07:01 , 00:15:10:16 , Aiming to make with what is called an Islamic State.

 

00:15:13:05 , 00:15:22:04 , They have fought us because we are the voice of equality, | because equality is not in their favour.

 

00:15:23:02 , 00:15:24:01 , How are you Jable?

 

00:15:24:02 , 00:15:25:04 , Great!

 

00:15:25:19 , 00:15:28:09 , Hey, take a photo of Abu Hisham and me,

 

00:15:28:10 ,00:15:31:02 , either I'll be a martyr or he will.

 

00:15:31:03 , 00:15:34:03 , Say it with me: Abu Azez and Abu Hisham martyrs.

 

00:15:34:10 , 00:15:35:17 , Martyrdom or victory.

 

00:15:35:18 , 00:15:38:08 , Martyrdom or victory. | God is great, God is great.

 

00:15:38:10 , 00:15:40:03 , If God wills it, we will advance to Damascus.

 

00:15:40:13 , 00:15:41:16 , To the presidential palace,

 

00:15:41:23 , 00:15:43:02 , to Bashar al-Assad.

 

00:15:45:02 , 00:15:47:14 , Glory to God what a belly.

 

00:15:51:01 , 00:15:53:07 , What is my interpretation of the battle?

 

00:15:55:05 , 00:15:58:23 , It is the soul that I have and that we offer.

 

00:15:59:05 , 00:16:01:14 , I, now, as a human, possess no more than my soul

 

00:16:01:20 ,00:16:03:02 , I am offering it up.

 

00:16:03:14 , 00:16:05:06 , I mean, all that I have I am offering up.

 

00:16:05:22 , 00:16:08:06 , I go out in an attack and I get it into my mind that | I won't be coming back.

 

00:16:21:10 , 00:16:24:04 , After we have taken up these weapons

 

00:16:28:03 , 00:16:30:06 , and we have seen by the shabiha

 

00:16:30:07 , 00:16:33:15 , and by the regime all the wrongdoings,

 

00:16:33:16 , 00:16:35:13 , I don't think there can be a political solution.

 

00:16:38:23 , 00:16:42:18 , There is no solution but bullets politics.

 

00:16:43:09 , 00:16:45:17 , And weapons.

 

00:16:52:18 , 00:16:55:08 , Now, when we arrive at the location, we'll put snipers there.

 

00:16:56:18 , 00:16:58:13 , They go up and put themselves in the position we're in now.

 

00:16:58:14 , 00:17:05:16 , They go up, fire a few shots and come back. 

 

00:17:15:17 , 00:17:18:02 , There is the sound of a tank.

 

00:17:19:00 , 00:17:21:07 , Are they shooting here?

 

00:17:21:18 , 00:17:24:19 , When we shoot, why is the noise we make | quieter than this tank?

 

00:17:26:06 , 00:17:28:12 , Damn, how many bullets are they wasting?

 

00:17:29:07 , 00:17:34:00 , Master, I say that, up until now, | the situation isn't normal.

 

00:17:36:05 , 00:17:39:03 , Can you see it (the helicopter)?

 

00:17:43:10 , 00:17:44:22 , Al-Izz bin Abdelsalam brigade.

 

00:17:45:23 , 00:17:47:20 , We try to strike the regime's army.

 

00:17:47:24 , 00:17:48:20 , God is great.

 

00:17:48:24 , 00:17:51:08 , Try to hit Assad's planes, God is great.

 

00:17:52:04 , 00:17:56:06 , Operation Shahid Khodr Ali, God is great.

 

00:17:56:11 , 00:17:59:21 , At the tower on the hill, God is great.

 

00:17:59:22 , 00:18:02:24 , God is great.

 

00:18:03:11 , 00:18:15:18 , Don't you feel that the revolution that you have walked with | has been stolen and went to another place?

 

00:18:18:12 , 00:18:24:22 , In my perspective yes, I have been since the first day of the revolution.

 

00:18:26:02 , 00:18:27:13 , From the first day.

 

00:18:29:06 , 00:18:32:01 , With people like these, the revolution has been stolen!

 

00:18:33:08 , 00:18:36:22 , Commander, if we go up they won't discover us.

 

00:18:37:16 , 00:18:41:01 , There's a hill a little bit farther on,

 

00:18:41:03 , 00:18:43:08 , it's about 100 meters away from us.

 

00:18:43:10 , 00:18:46:14 , Stop behind the hill, shoot and then go back behind the hill.

 

00:18:57:15 , 00:18:59:09 , Hit the tower, the tower.

 

00:19:00:06 , 00:19:01:20 , Look where it is, look.

 

00:19:01:24 , 00:19:03:10 , God is great.

 

00:19:09:19 , 00:19:11:19 , Crawl, crawl, crawl.

 

00:19:12:14 , 00:19:13:20 , No-one shoot.

 

00:19:14:23 , 00:19:16:10 , The plane has arrived, everyone stop shooting.

 

00:19:23:21 , 00:19:26:12 , Abu Mosaab, from the noise you can hear that the plane is low.

 

00:19:29:16 , 00:19:31:11 , Look he has dropped the barrel, he's dropped it.

 

00:19:31:23 , 00:19:33:02 , Bum, bum, bum.

 

00:19:34:08 , 00:19:35:07 , Look, look, look.

 

00:19:39:08 , 00:19:40:14 , It fired over the trees.

 

00:19:40:19 , 00:19:42:02 , Over this one.

 

00:19:45:23 , 00:19:47:13 , Let me just hear some gunfire,

 

00:19:47:14 , 00:19:50:16 , that way the firing from my position won't be noticed.

 

00:19:50:17 , 00:19:51:19 , And they won't discover us.

 

00:19:52:18 , 00:19:55:08 , Ok, ok. Abu A'az, Abu A'az.

 

00:19:57:09 , 00:20:05:04 , (Radio): You just shoot, that way when he fires the shots | they won't be heard and his position won't be discovered.

 

00:20:07:13 , 00:20:09:15 , Let's hit the trucks near the tower.

 

00:20:12:23 , 00:20:14:10 , The trucks near the tower.

 

00:20:15:24 , 00:20:17:03 , The trucks?

 

00:20:17:19 , 00:20:20:05 , Mate, if there are people there shoot at the people.

 

00:20:23:00 , 00:20:24:22 , Come on brother, come on, I've started.

 

00:20:37:07 , 00:20:39:03 , They fired at the tower.

 

00:20:48:13 , 00:20:50:12 , (Radio): Is it ours or theirs?

 

00:20:50:13 , 00:20:52:00 , Come on guys, come on.

 

00:20:52:10 , 00:20:55:12 , During this period there is nothing in Syria, | Syria is gone

 

00:20:55:14 , 00:21:00:15 , but hopefully the generation after us will be better than us.

 

00:21:00:23 , 00:21:08:06 , Syria is now finished, even in 10 years nothing will be called | Syria and nothing will be called a home.

 

00:21:09:20 , 00:21:13:04 , I'm not even thinking of living in Syria now.

 

00:21:13:08 , 00:21:16:18 , So I know that I will be returning to die down | there and not to live.

 

00:21:22:10 , 00:21:25:21 , (Radio): Let us rest a little.

 

00:21:29:06 , 00:21:30:04 , God is great.

 

00:21:30:05 , 00:21:31:06 , God is great.

 

00:21:31:07 , 00:21:32:12 , God is great.

 

00:21:38:09 , 00:21:40:19 , Slowly, rest a minute Abu Mosaab.

 

00:21:40:21 , 00:21:42:13 , Pour guys, pour.

 

00:21:43:07 , 00:21:44:22 , Rest, rest.

 

00:21:45:18 , 00:21:47:17 , Rest, slow down, lie on the ground.

 

00:21:50:10 , 00:21:52:05 , They can't hear us, they can't hear us commander.

 

00:22:03:18 , 00:22:05:03 , There's a MIG.

 

00:22:06:05 , 00:22:09:09 , What's wrong? Lie down Abu.

 

00:22:10:00 , 00:22:12:01 , Lie down, it's shooting missiles.

 

00:22:14:01 , 00:22:16:08 , I think it's above us, lie down guys.

 

00:22:17:07 , 00:22:18:06 , It's shooting a missile guys.

 

00:22:18:10 , 00:22:19:15 , Glorify him.

 

00:22:19:22 , 00:22:21:06 , God is great.

 

00:22:21:10 , 00:22:24:13 , The al-Izz bin Abdelsalam fires

 

00:22:24:21 , 00:22:28:22 , at Assad's plane during the Shahid el-Sheik Ali operation

 

00:22:29:18 , 00:22:31:20 , Khodr Ali, God is great.

 

00:22:33:03 , 00:22:35:01 , I hope the revolution is not stolen away.

 

00:22:35:12 , 00:22:36:09 , Enough.

 

00:22:36:21 , 00:22:40:06 , I hope the revolution stays with those who carried it out.

 

00:22:41:02 , 00:22:43:07 , And if it doesn't stay with those who carried it out,

 

00:22:43:16 , 00:22:46:13 , I hope it stays with those who deserve it.

 

00:22:49:21 , 00:22:57:06 , How did you feel on the night that you decided to go?

 

00:22:58:13 , 00:23:06:19 , At that time they wanted (ISIL) to occupy the base.

 

00:23:09:02 , 00:23:15:23 , and day after day they wanted to raid our bases and take our weapons.

 

00:23:17:07 , 00:23:22:04 , They didn't raid our bases, we were waiting and nothing happened.

 

00:23:22:18 , 00:23:27:12 , I looked at it and thought to here and that's it.

 

00:23:35:16 , 00:23:38:18 , I've decided to make my way to Turkey in order to live.

 

00:23:39:01 , 00:23:45:23 , I have nothing to do in revolution, no more, people killing me | in front of me and people waiting for me in my back.

 

00:23:46:12 , 00:23:51:16 , I have no one in my back protecting me | and no one next to me to move forward.

 

00:23:52:06 , 00:23:55:14 , No ammunition, no weapons so what am I going to do inside?

 

00:23:55:18 , 00:23:59:22 , If you are to fight a battle you aren't able to | unless you inform the ISIL about it.

 

00:23:59:23 , 00:24:04:08 , If you want to do anything ISIL are standing in the middle.

 

00:24:10:16 , 00:24:16:19 , The moment where you crossed the border what did you feel?

 

00:24:21:05 , 00:24:27:12 , A feeling that cannot be described at all.

 

00:24:40:01 , 00:24:51:05 , While the Syrian conflict has entered its third year, for most of the former fighters | of the brigade al-Izz bin Abdelsalam the dream of seeing the fall of the regime of | Bashar al Assad has crumbled.

 

00:24:51:05 , 00:24:57:20 , THIS IS WHY I FEEL BETRAYED | A film by Andrea Bernardi

 

00:24:57:21 , 00:25:53:07 , CREDITS

 

Direction, images, sound:

Andrea Bernardi

 

Editing:

Andrea Bernardi

 

Video post-production:

Andrea Bernardi

 

Audio post-production

Fabrizio Sisti (Artemysia Communication)

 

Music:

Fabrizio Sisti (Artemysia Communication)

 

With:

Kamal Yussef Hammani, Abu Baseer (31)

Mustafa Sajer (28)

Saleh (27)

"Abu Khaled" (32)

"Abu Aza'a" (22)

"Abu Tarek" (72)

 

Additional images:

Salam Rizk

Salma Media Center

Brigade al-Izz bin Abdelsalam

 

Translations:

Gihad Samarli

Sarah Meehan