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My point is to counteract the Western propaganda that civilians are being wilfully targeted when it is now down to combat between armed rebels and the Syrian government. In reports about Homs, had you heard of the armed rebels firing mortars?

Well, I hadn't heard that exactly, because I'm not all that trustful of any of the reports coming out of Syria, however, it seems fairly obvious that large parts of the Syrian regular army have rebelled, and would have taken their weapons with them, which I would expect to include mortars. Whether they really have been supplied with other, more sophisticated weapons, including anti-tank, well, it seems likely.