Syria: Civilians Come Under Fire From Rebels

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17. Al Queda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra represent about 6,000 out of over 100,000 opposition fighters.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2013/05/14/63221/the-structure-and-organization-of-the-syrian-opposition/

6,000 can cause a lot of damage but they are not the entire opposition. Most Syrians do not want a theocracy or an autocracy. The are surprisingly like you and me in that sense.

"The rebels" are not any one kind of people but a wide variety. About half of the fighters are reasonably 'good guys' - or as good as anyone gets in a civil war. There are as many or more 'terrorists' on the autocrat's side of the war. They don't use car bombs but they use terror to achieve their ends just the same. The vast majority of war crimes in Syria have been committed by the government according to Amnesty International so let's not present a 'romanticized' version of the army and government miitias either.