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The Guardian's Mona Mahmood (@monamood) has been conducting telephone and Skype interviews with people in Syria. Here she speaks with a fighter calling himself Abu Abdullah, attached to the LiwaelIslam brigade in Aleppo.

From an interview with the fighter Abu Abdullah:

As a Muslim, I can't tell if the US strike against Syria is good or bad, but it is highly possible that it is bad for us as Islamic jihadis. We know that the infidels work together whether Bashar's regime, or British and Americans. [...]

We believe that instead of striking the regime, the US forces will shoot the Islamic brigades bases in Syria, the most active brigades now if you compare it to other battalions fighting now. There are many Islamic brigades in Syria now, some of them are too extreme and some others are moderate and their main motive is to lift the injustice off the Syrian people and spread out equity among Muslims.

If the US administration is scared of the Islamic organizations, I want them to know that if we prevail, we will devote Syria economy and military force to help the Syrian people and any other people are under any sort of repression. Still, we know whatever we do, the West won't accept it unless we work in their satellite.

We know that the West won't liberate Syria of Bashar for nothing, but we are ready to work with anyone who would help us to get rid of Bashar without any conditions.

We would not accept to get rid of the Bashar occupation to fall into a new occupation. If the West really wants to help us, they need to send advanced weapons to the fighters. We have lots of fighters but we need weapons. Otherwise, they need to leave us fighting with Bashar alone.

– Interview by Mona Mahmood

(other interviews with fighters who believe the US will strike them here)