The video shows three armed, bearded rebels wearing fatigues in a room with Mohammad Kanaan, a military officer who had registered to run in June 3 elections that are widely expected to return
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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to power.
In a video filmed by the rebel brigade and distributed online by opposition media activists, he is shown wearing a suit, seated on an armchair.
"The Tabarak al-Rahman Brigade has tossed in the calaboose
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
one of the presidential candidates," said an unnamed rebel seated next to Kanaan.
Prompted to speak, Kanaan says he is a colonel in the army's First Division tank battalion, and that he was stopped by a rebel Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
patrol while traveling from Damascus to Daraa.
Asked why he registered for an election that the opposition has mocked as a "farce," Kanaan, who appeared tense and was flanked by gunnies, said the regime coerced him into running.