How The Brotherhood Builds Power in Syria’s Opposition

Lieutenant-Colonel Hussein Harmoush, one of the first Syrian army officers to defect, was contacted by the Muslim Brotherhood shortly after he arrived at a refugee camp in Turkey’s Hatay province in June of 2011. He was one of a small group of defectors, the Free Officers.
Brotherhood members visited him several times and promised him logistical, financial and material support in exchange for “cooperation”. Lt Col Harmoush replied “tell me what you want and I will decide accordingly”, Lt Basim Khaled, speaking for the Free Officers, told me in an interview. “They wanted him to follow their directions and support them politically.”

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