The Guardian's Mona Mahmood (@monamood) has been speaking by phone and Skype with contacts in Damascus and has translated interviews with three Syrians about whether they would support a US-led military intervention.  All three interviewees oppose the Assad regime but are reluctant to embrace a US entry into (or an expansion of the US role in) the conflict. One interviewee, a jihadi fighter from Homs, outright opposes US strikes, believing the real target of US missiles would be opposition fighters – and not the Assad regime.  Part of Mona's interview with the fighter, who calls himself Abu Rami, is below. Later in the blog we'll feature two others she spoke with: a retired soldier with two sons currently serving – under threat of death, he says – in the Syrian army, who reluctantly favors US intervention "to get rid of Bashar"; and a mother of five in the Damascus suburbs who lives on charity, lacks medicine and food and sees the US intervention as a way to "stop the machine of death."  From an interview with the fighter Abu Rami:  "I joined Ahrar Alsham Islamic brigade soon after the breakout of the revolution in Syria. I was working as a labourer in Beirut but decided to leave everything behind and headed back to my hometown in Homs to do jihad for the sake of God.  "We as Islamic Jihadi brigades in Syria are against any US intervention in Syria. We are absolutely confident that victory is by God, not by US. The US administration has been protecting the regime all the time and won't stop supporting it. This regime has protected Israel's borders over 40 years. The US won't topple this regime at all. We are so confident of this fact.  "If the US administration really want to help the Syrian people, they should supply Mujahdien with weapons and definitely we will win over the regime. For more than three years now, we have been asking for weapons, but [there's been] no response at all because the US is so keen to keep the regime in place and Bashar as a president.  "Bashar is a safeguard for their interests in the region, how can they get rid of him?! If the US administration is really serious and will strike Syria, the strike will be in support of the regime but against Islamic Mujahdien like Jabhat AlNusra, Iraq and AlSham Islamic state / AlQaeda/ and their bases and fighters.  "We believe that this attack is against us not against the regime as the western media propaganda try to spread out. If the US forces targeted the Syrian regime, the regime knows about every single US rocket where it will land and all other details to protect itself. [...]  "Russia and US are not worried that the chemical weapons used by Assad but they are worried that we as Islamic Jihadies would put our hand on it. If they were scared of Bashar using chemical weapons, they would not allow him to have chemical weapons right from the beginning. [...]  "If the US aggression really took place , we know we can't stop it but we will seize the opportunity to inflect the regime as much losses as we can. We will make use of the regime's confusion during the attack and will launch as many raids as we can against its sensitive positions. We have set up lots of plans on what to do during the attack. [...]  "We do not accept the US intervention but if they it happens, we know what to do."  – Interview with Mona Mahmood
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