If Major Yaser Abdulrahim looks like he's never wore his FSA uniform out into the field, that's because he hasn't. He is not a member of the FSA at all, and is instead a commander of the Fatah Halab, an umbrella group for Al Qaeda affiliates armed and funded by both the US and Saudi Arabia.
The BBC's latest production is as absurd as it is transparent and abhorrent.
Upon reading the increasingly desperate headlines pumped out by the Western media as Western-backed terrorist forces begin to fold under an effective joint Syrian-Russian offensive to take the country back, readers will notice that though the term "moderate rebels" or "moderate opposition" is used often, the Western media is seemingly incapable of naming a single faction or leader among them.
The reason for this is because there are no moderates and there never were. Since 2007, the US has conspired to arm and fund extremists affiliated with Al Qaeda to overthrow the government of Syria and destabilize Iranian influence across the entire Middle East.
Exposed in Seymour Hersh's 2007 article, "The Redirection Is the Administration's new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?," it stated explicitly that:
The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
Comment: The BBC - like CNN, Fox News, The New York Times, Washington Post, etc. is yet another organ of gross disinformation, Western terror and imperial ambition. In the vast scheme of things, this latest deception from the British Broadcasting Company is actually pretty small and par for the course.
See these stories for a small sampling of the BBC's wholesale lies: