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Syrian army defectors raise stakes for uprising
Attacks by army defectors are transforming the Syrian uprising into an armed insurgency that threatens to spiral into civil war. The Free Syrian Army holds no territory, appears largely disorganized and is up against a fiercely loyal and cohesive military that will stop at nothing to protect the regime.Still, without foreign military intervention or significant cracks in President Bashar Assad's iron