and columnist david ignatius is joining us from "the washington post." i know you're well plugged in, you've been speaking to your sources among the syrian rebels. what are you hearing? >> what i'm hearing today from rebels in touch with the command from the syrian army is, first, that assad's forces are said to be moving files, other sensitive equipment, some personnel out of their normal headquarters in damascus into the civilian areas of the city. much has happened in baghdad before baghdad was struck in 2003. the second thing that i'm hearing is that among the assad army command, there is growing nervousness, and that's shown by people sending their families out of syria to get them out of harm's way and by some increase in defections by syrian army personnel to the free syrian army side. and then finally, i'm hearing that among the syrian rebels there's an expectation that this