In reality, Raqqa's 17th division base had been under siege since long before Isis arrived and took weeks to capture.
They captured the 17th division base in a matter of seconds – even though there were 800 of us and they only numbered in the dozens".
More significantly for the rebels' plan to head from their northern stronghold to Damascus, fighters have seized the 46th division base at Atareb, west of Aleppo.
Since the verdicts would automatically come under review and the government might again need him as a witness, he was kept on in the post of military policeman at the division base.
The participants in the cases, including lawyers, witnesses, law officers, and members of the court, lived in tents near the courthouse, and often at night the vicious thump of artillery shells, enemy-bound, from the edges of the division base disturbed the quiet of the legal encampment.
Far from where the daily, relentless fighting was going on, he pointed out, Radcliff was probably less disposed to take gratuitous violence in stride; besides, there were infinitely more people at the division base, and that gave him a better chance of finding the effective ally he needed.
