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20:07 03/05/2012 The official authorities in Syria call them bandits and terrorists. Syrian civilians are either afraid of them or support them. When a RIA Novosti correspondent wanted to go to Homs to find the rebels, he was warned: “The FSA hates the Russians, they’ll probably kill you.”>>