"Dima, the doctor, who lives on the western side of Aleppo, said she
believed that the fire had been started by incendiary bullets from
government snipers. But she blamed the rebels for approaching the old
city, which she said had no government target, and said they seemed more
concerned with the number of areas they could seize than with their
tactical importance. “They are not the army of freedom,” she said. “They are the army of spite.”"