From Angry Arab's correspondent-at-large: "I just want to tell you this about the FSA
area I visited (in rural Damascus): the people there still pay
electricity bills to the regime. One man there said: administratively we
are still under the regime, only security is run by the FSA. The town
had no regime presence whatsoever and the opposition flags are painted
everywhere but as a matter of fact, the regime has surrounded the town
and has a checkpoint at the entrance giving permissions to people to
come and go as if they have decided to leave it for now and will deal
with it later. From time to time they do target it (it is full of
civilian families) but still not as heavily as other areas, maybe to
remind them that they are still there. I was also told from a trusted
source (close to UNSMIS) that the FSA actually controls less than 5% of
Syria."