Syria Rebels Set Up Own Intelligence Service

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The video, posted to YouTube by Free Syrian Army spokesman Fahad al-Masri, shows eight armed men wearing masks over their faces.









He declined to give the number of members of this unit, but said that they include civilians, soldiers and even former security services agents "whose sole purpose is to protect the homeland and prevent sectarian strife."

The formation of this service was "a decision of the military and the revolutionary movement." It is collaborating with all factions and its command is inside Syria," Jaara told Agence France Presse by phone.

"No revolution in the world can win or survive without such a service which protects it from attacks and infiltrations," he said, adding that the most important task is "to be operational after the fall of the regime to prevent sectarian attacks and looting."

The Baathist regime of President Bashar Assad and his father and predecessor, Hafez Assad, has used a multitude of intelligence services over the past half-century to ensure complete domination of the population.

Informants are so rife in the country that Syrians joke that while other nations have developed intelligence services, in Syria it is the security services which have created the state.

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