The Free Syrian Army - an umbrella term for opposition fighters there -
has been described as unco-ordinated, untrained and hampered by
infighting.
General Rahal, a senior defector from one of the Syrian
government's military academies, talked to Al Jazeera's Anita McNaught
in the northern Idlib province about the mistakes that have been made.
"There is no revolution in the whole world without mistakes," he said.