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Former Nusra Front judge Abu Hamid, 43, takes a moment of fun, joking that he should be riding a Harley Davidson Motorcycle. Working as a judge and a religious teacher before the Syrian Revolution, he was conscripted to work for Al Nusra as a judge when the group took over his hometown of Deir Ez Zour. Abu Hamid had spent the previous fifteen years teaching young Muslim extremists that violence was not in accord with the teachings of Islam. However, under Nusra he was tasked mostly with dividing up oil revenues in what he considered was an unjust system. When he was ordered to rubber-stamp the executions of innocent people he was appalled and terrified. When he asked the local Nusra Emir why they had executed these people he was told to stop questioning his orders or they would kill his family. That day he piled his family in his car and fled for Turkey. He and his family have been living in Turkey for six months in the small town of G?rentas near the Syrian border. He is fed up with the war and feels that he cannot do anything to affect the outcome. March 9, 2014, Hatay, Turkey.
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