Covering Qusayr, still

From the New York Times:  "“We are hiding in the orchards,” said one refugee interviewed by telephone who said he was outside of Qusayr." The man tells you that he has no food and no medicine and that he is in hiding but manages to charge his cellphone.  But most importantly, and this is a question I posed to Anne Barnard before (and I did not get an answer): how on earth do a New York Times correspondent manages to accidentally stumbles on the cellphone number (or Skype name) of a Syrian refugee in hiding? Who supplies you with those names and numbers?  And if this refugee is a fighter, would he had volunteered that to you, knowing that the professional liars and fabricators of the Fee Syrian Army manage to tell all Western reporters that in Syria the war is between Syrian regime forces and Hizbullah versus "activists and civilians".  Which reminds me: do you remember that when the Fee Syrian Army first emerged it said that its sole military role is to protect demonstrators in Syria from regime gunfire? How is the mission going by the way? How is the protection going?  And the "refugee" cited above: he said he was "outside of Qusayr": how come the two sources rule does not apply when covering Syria?