Though the Syrian National Council claims to be coordinating more effectively with the Free Syrian Army, there's still evidence of discord between the SNC and the other major group, the National Coordination Committee:
[T]he Syrian authorities recognised the National Coordination Committee as a legitimate opposition group with the goal of dividing the opposition. This move discredited the organisation in the eyes of protesters [the Syrian regime offered to hold‘national talks’ with the opposition in July, 2011]. National Coordination Committee leader Haytham al-Manna has also contributed to the fratricidal struggle within the opposition by accusing the SNC of being financed by ‘American companies’. This echoes allegations made by Assad’s regime, which claims the opposition has been manipulated by foreign agenda.
It's no surprise – for these among other reasons – that the military wing has significant support among protestors. Michael Weiss sees it gaining hard strength as well:
Military defections in Syria have been occurring at a much higher rate than has been reported in the international press. For this and other reasons, Syria’s conventional forces are probably much weaker than previously assumed. As I blogged the other day, rebel forces composed of both civilians and military defectors are now taking the fight to the regime’s elite brigades all throughout the Damascus suburbs. Though under-armed and ill-equipped, they’re beginning to organise themselves to an impressive degree and have already launched several daring raids against regime personnel.
If you want to contribute to the protest movement, you can sign this petition to the UN and Arab League demanding the arrest of Assad's tortures. Alastair Beach profiles Fadwa Soliman, a prominent actress who's become a symbol of the resolution. Maysaloon pens an anguished plea to regime supporters. Here's a film of a student protest in Aleppo being broken up and a straggler beaten:
This is a big rally in Homs:
Finally, this video documents a mass arrest of people quite possibly bound for torture chambers:
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