Once IT manager in Texas, now top Syrian rebel
"At a time when there's so
much baggage in the Middle East , they need an
outsider. He's an outsider in the sense of no political loyalties."
Hitto has Kurdish heritage, one
of the ethnic minorities in diverse Syria .
The general view about the civil
war is that the al-Assad government is dominated by Alawites, and Sunni Arabs
represent much of the opposition membership. But there are many more groups in Syria , ethnic
and religious, and questions of allegiance or nonallegiance can be complicated
and fluid. The choice of Hitto suggests that the opposition is working to be
inclusive.
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