jamal maarouf, an excellent military leader. his brigade is made up of groups from all over syria. >> narrator: jamal is the commander of the martyrs of syria brigade, one of the biggest factions of the free syrian army. while some rebel units contain islamic foreign fighters, jamal says his men are all local, and they're fighting for a democratic syria. he's called a meeting in a safe house deep in rebel territory, and is clear on how he will respond to the united nations truce. >> (translated): we are not going to have a truce with killers and criminals. no way. >> (translated): these declarations are being made by people who live abroad, people who don't represent the revolution on the ground. i contacted all the combat divisions on the ground by skype and phone. they literally said that they do not want to commit to this truce. tomorrow we will hit the checkpoint at wadi daif. be ready at 5:30 a.m. pray, and then come. >> narrator: jamal says the attack will bring democracy and justice one step closer. >> (translated): syria

i was actually filming with a rebel commander called jamal maarouf, he was one of the most powerful rebel leaders in the region that i was staying in and while i was filming him as the camera was running a regime jet flew overhead and dropped what was clearly a very large bomb on the very village that i was in and it landed just less than three hundred meters from where i was sitting. the force of it streaming to the ground and it killed 17 people and there are many more injured and there weren't any other journalists -- arab or western, for many, many miles. and to witness the destruction and the bloodshed on that scale was quite horrific. more than that, it was the indiscriminate attacks on civilians and the civilian population, many of whom were actually refugees, the people in the villages that i was staying in, many of them had fled to these villages from the city. they ought the villages were safer and then their worlds are literally blown apart in front of them. it was a really shocking experience. i never really witnessed or experienced anything like that. >> brown: i want to ask