By: Radwan Mortada
Published Monday, February 6, 2012
Members of the Free Syrian Army in an house in Wadi Khaled. Photo: Al-Akhbar
Part (I): On Patrol
The freezing cold bears down heavily, deadening the footsteps of passersby and turning their breath into vapor clouds that rise into the air like chimney-smoke.
This is a typical winter morning in Wadi Khaled, the valley in Lebanon’s far northeastern corner named – depending on who you ask – after the forebear of a clan of the Aneza tribe, or the Muslim conqueror of Syria Khaled Ibn al-Waleed, who is said to have passed through here after the battle of Yarmouk in 636 A.D.
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