Attacking the "fixers" in Syria

In most armed conflicts "fixers" have become indispensable to foreign journaliss. They help them cruise past military or paramilitary checkpoints, assure the logistics, establish contacts. They warn internationa reporters about dangerous zones and dangerous people. They translate, drive, entertain, protect.
Since they are a support for allegedly hostile foreign journalists authoritarian states go after them. This is what happened to the Syrian "fixer" Ali Mahmoud Othman, a videographer who ran the "media center" in Homs where Western journalists and Syrians were killed or wounded last February.
Read the CPJ's account of his arrest
http://www.cpj.org/2012/04/syria-detains-reportedly-tortures-videographer.php#more