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    In April last year Ahmad Mohammad left his village in northern Syria filled with its pomegranate trees, figs, and goats, and moved to Lebanon. He came back five months later with a certificate in mobile phone maintenance – a weapon more powerful than Bashar al-Assad’s helicopters and tanks.

    While he was away Mohammad learned how to upload videos to YouTube – a website banned by the Syrian regime. “Nobody in Syria knew how to do this,” he said.

    From ‘Syria’s video activists give revolution the upper hand in media war’
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