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What does pro-Assad mean? Are they coordinating with him? They wanna put him back in power? What's your proof?

Or you mean they simply like him?

it doesn't seem like this is just them suddenly deciding to stop the "extra judicial murders"

It's not sudden. This isn't the first act of resistance, but this is the most organized we've seen. They have been complaining for months about these killings.

There's certainly enough alawites armed or military trained to do this. They're more military trained than any other group ever since the French occupation days.