Syrian armed "rebels"

"Predictably the black car was there which had led us to the trap. They roared off as soon as we re-appeared.  I’m quite clear the rebels deliberately set us up to be shot by the Syrian Army. Dead journos are bad for Damascus.That conviction only strengthened half an hour later when our four friends in the same beaten-up black car suddenly pulled out of a side-street, blocking us from the UN vehicles ahead.The UN duly drove back past us, witnessed us surrounded by shouting militia, and left town.  Eventually we got out too and on the right route, back to Damascus.  In a war where they slit the throats of toddlers back to the spine, what’s the big deal in sending a van full of journalists into the killing zone?It was nothing personal."