Scandinavian ex-special forces train Free Army in Edlib

Armed terrorists are trained with the help of tens of millions of dollars of funding from the Middle East and under the watchful gaze of foreign former Special Forces.

More than a dozen training camps have been set up in Edlib province, in which young men prepare for the fight against The Syrian Army and Syrian Government as well.

In one camp, ‘recruits’ were put through their paces on an arduous obstacle course.

Timed to the shouts of Commander Abdel Qader, the men vaulted walls, scrambled under razor wire mesh and swung along ropes in the tree tops.

Two men looked on from the tented sleeping quarters nearby.

Tall with shaven heads, fair skin, bulging pectoral muscles, and biceps covered in tattoos, they were incongruous among the scrawny young fighters.

They could not speak Arabic.

The men, who use the code names Radwan and Mohammed, come from Scandinavia, but have requested that the country not be disclosed.

Though they refused to speak, saying only that they were “here to help”, recruits in the Free Army said that the men were ex-special forces working as military advisers.