. >> anthony: bismillah. >> omar: bismillah.e you doing before the war? >> omar: i was a travel agent. >> anthony: you were a travel agent? >> omar: yes. and i was studying, too, in medical school. >> anthony: many of the people who started the revolution, who fought in the streets with makeshift weapons, were like omar --- medical students, garage mechanics, or simply teenagers. they transformed themselves in a matter of months from kids playing playstation to hardened fighters and field medics. >> omar: nobody believed that he can be removed. really. >> anthony: extraordinary. >> omar: yeah. >> anthony: how quickly after the uprising started did you begin to think that, "wow, this is possible, that we might actually win?" >> omar: the first day, when the uprise -- >> anthony: first day? >> omar: yeah. >> anthony: the day before, you're thinking, "impossible." >> omar: it's impossible. >> anthony: "we'll be stuck with this son of a bitch forever." >> omar: whatsoever. >> anthony: and then, a few hours later it's like, "wow, thi