Alawite Force Turned Tide for Assad

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BY SAM DAGHER
HOMS, Syria—Mounir and Samir Fandi, twin brothers from this central Syrian city, had ordinary lives before the start of civil war more than two years ago.
Mounir worked as a technician at the country’s telephone company. Samir was a traffic cop.
Life for the 40-year-old brothers changed abruptly 20 months ago. Their 85-year-old father and another brother were killed by rebels at a fake checkpoint in Homs—the Fandis believe for no other reason than belonging to the Alawite minority that dominates the Syrian regime.
Now the brothers are members of the Homs branch of the National Defense Force, a mainly …
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