Director trails Big A, leader of one of Copenhagen's most notorious gangs, as he joins rebels fighting the Assad regime.
Two Danes lie in the back of a pickup truck on the Turkish-Syrian border waiting for a call. They're with a young British jihadi and a group of ultra-conservative Syrian Salafi Islamists. Soon they'll be smuggled into Syriato join the fight against the Assad regime.
One of the Danes, a 40-year-old father of three, doesn't want to be named. The other doesn't care; he knows that as long as he avoids proscribed terrorist groups, he can't be prosecuted under Danish law. On the streets of Copenhagen he is known as Big A, a convicted drug trafficker and the leader of one of Denmark's most notorious organised crime gangs. But on the frontline in northern Syria, Abderozzak Benarabe is just another have-a-go jihadi, a man who joined the fight against Bashar al-Assad through a mix of restlessness, curiosity and a need for some kind of personal redemption.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/07/european-jihadi-danish-gangster-frontline-syria