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RPT: Syrian Rebels Brace for Attack
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- Duration 2:14
- Date Jul 27, 2012
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Is there something larger and more ominous looming in a -- out.
It's at the beginning to feel like it -- -- this is very much make or break from the rebels that's the impression of getting by the meant about telling me the number of troops to the government has.
Sensing -- serious that you see TV and I think -- He fights agency saying.
This is an imminent showed analysts gathered we have -- Haven't seen -- -- told it's almost an existential threat -- attitudes for the regime because the regime could not afford to lose a lack of it being so important.
Army reinforcements to stand and says thank and -- helicopters have been.
What this.
And the western Pacific -- -- -- in the very center.
Don't keep neighborhoods that kind of weapons or the equivalent to the north resist the -- of the helicopter gunships.
The and it fights is that we've seen in the past couple of days as well.
I'm happy to see a member of the government treats add -- to waiting to meet in apparently his amendment to employees of amendments.
Positions very similar typing very -- we've seen the government take on Damascus -- rebels are now we'll just one main stronghold left in the capital.
We've heard from the former UN actually that was running the monitoring mission saying this if you -- troops.
Mobilization that -- -- in insurgents that actually could help the rebels bring in more supporters and I'm repelled the regime mock them back to you.
I mean it feels like we're at a pivotal point in all of this -- there's also some reports Dominic.
Of a secret base in Turkey looking to tell us about that.
According to reports on what it says there's a secret base -- that's not just sixty miles across the border in Turkey.
That has the backing of the Khatami's and the saudis as well and is being used provide.
Military and communications support to the rebels the rebels that he would no way BM looks to have the sort of surprising attacks we've seen in the past couple of weeks.
Without foreign intervention held.
Now we understand that -- bases in the town -- out now which is very -- to the actually base where the US has a major air force base there as well no indications the Americans aren't involved in this is any time that we -- -- -- taking it from its hands off approach to lead the CIA is believed it.
Be monitoring the situation in the northern Syria using obviously assets that he's -- in the region Martha.