Rebel Assault Shows Assad’s Infrastructure as New Target
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The grainy footage showed gunmen crouched amid the sparse vegetation of a Syrian hillside overlooking a key hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River.
“Get down, get down, your position is not good,” a rebel commander can be heard saying on an unverified YouTube video posted by fighters of the Tawheed Brigade opposing President Bashar al-Assad. “Spread out in twos and threes,” the voice says. The sound of gunfire is heard. The next film purports to show the control room of the 630-megawatt Tishrin Dam following the assault, while a third displays captured military hardware including assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.