re: #1 ckkatz
And that in turn implies that the Syrian rebels are beginning to have effective anti-aircraft capability. Most likely man-portable air defense (‘manpads’) missiles, either looted from Syrian or Libyan military facilities.
Likely at least some triple A
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Rebels also claimed to have seized a number of mobile anti-aircraft guns at two air defence bases outside Damascus which they recently overran, as well as at Marj al-Sultan.