if not allawi. and they came because they came with army divisions and settled there. they were settled there. and particularly if we talk to another area, 0en a land that belongs to the bardsa people, there's been conflict over land and title. the conflict is not sectarian. however of course when you're looking at it, well of course you're saying there's allawis against sunnis, but they have hi historical grudges. the regime is functions on the basis of basic relies on the military. so if the members of the military happen to large extent to be allawi, not because you know, perhaps there have been favoring or there are other reasons, economic reasons for instance many of the allawi villagers in latakia had to be abandoned because there was no economic development in them. and the only avenue of work for them was to join the army. below officer rank. and they were set in those areas by people like assad, and no integration into the urban economy. and i must say also about other rural migrants have n

what is the source of tension between them and the allawis. i would say on the whole are not religious. and we need to look at the regime and you know, there isn't much difference between the regime and the state, by the fact that the regime controls so much of the state. there isn't really a separation or atonmy of any institutions. it does that of course through the security services, and to some extent, the army as we are seeing today. so really, what we need to look at are sociopolitical processes that have been at work for a long time, for 40 years and we are now seeing them at work in really we have populations, the allawi minority, some of the population are being used as buffers against the other parts of the population engaging in the protest. this also doesn't mean there are no allawis part of the uprising. many of the intellectuals and the activists and the people engaged in what is known as the local coordinating committees, many of them are allawis, many are jews and so on. we do see the minorities, whether they're allawis or what

it's a sunni opposition to an allawi government. but what we now see the siety as reject bad sharr al-assad. he's add war with his country in a way that his father wasn't. >> rose: have they rejected him in favor of anything other than getting rid of him? >> the future. >> rose: and who will shape the future? go ahead. tom. >> fouad, a question. do you think there is this muslim brotherhood element underneath the rock that we haven't seen in the way the sol fist dimension surprised us to some degree in egypt and iraq? is it just a different society? >> i don't know,'d like hear josh on this. in 1980 membership in the muslim brotherhood became a capital offense. you were executed there is a muslim brotherhood, it's in germany. the exiles are there. they're old. it's the people of hoplsz, it's the people who've tired of the asadz. it's the people who look and realize that be that is the son of hafez and guess what? bashar has a son called hafez so they are in the know that these people have dynastic ambitions to rule that country fore

back in the center and damascus is known as a melting pot of religions allawi sector a minority in the country but despite making up around just twelve percent potato population heloise have occupied elite positions in the government and the military for decades and now there are fears that resentment among the majority muslim sunni sacks could erupt the country that until this crisis breakout was religiously diverse as the tolerance now the can increasingly polarized genuine fears that is where those divisions my laid his a sectarian tensions being further exploited have been staked by the emergence of an al qaeda video link the holy war illustrate the assad regime the violence is just not going to end we see it happening and iraq neighboring iraq sectarian violence that is catastrophic and nobody is reporting on that the reporting on syria and they're not focusing on the potential problems that syria could lead into another iraq on the streets through an increasingly desperate population has called for help in whatever form it comes as long as it stops the violence there's little tim

that was shot last saturday the regime actually but the sunni and the shiite the problem is that the allawi the interconnector to the shiite in the area and most of the powerful groups inside let alone such as hezbollah or the party of god they are immediately shiite animal movement let's say they are major ruling parties actually representing the shiite muslim they are recruits they connected to the regime of president bashar al assad and they are not well thought of by current local sunni is inside tripoli and i courage and which is a very close region geographically and strategically towards the border with the republic of syria so these there is a high tension between the not only the two peoples that see but certain people they have been you know supporting actually the opposition is inside syria by the people from north london on majorly they are sunni sunni but they're our ally it's inside the north especially. what's in or about what's said which is a majority of alawite that the occupy there or the actually they live there by my immaturity and that they are closely related to the r

this also doesn't mean there are no allawis. many of the people engaged in there many of them are allawis and many of them are jews and so on. they are fearful of what can happen. the regime has represented themselves as guardians against the minority. i'll end by mentioned that one of my contacts, who is organizing demonstrations and so on, in reference to his neighbor who was told at the beginning of -- i heard in april, they were told like you're going to lose your homes and your land because you're your neighbors are going to come and claim it back. what happened is many of the residents came thinking they were defending their homes against the extremist sunni neighbors. they have funkalized -- functionalized to move people against each other. measure 86 has been established since the 1970's. they would end up by saying life is good, we thank president. at least the older residents. that is not just cliche. it is a sense of gratitude. there is a gift of violence. they were brought for coercion. they will continue to be used.