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The UK and US may just like to watch any forming "dissent" and hope online communities will show trends before they shape into visable anti war/human rights/environmental/finance reform protests.
Web 2.0 and online gaming communities seem to offer what "peace groups", 'bars', 'clubs', "unions' and 'universities" did in the past to the intelligence services.
Then certain well funded NSA/CIA/GCHQ "front" groups can be pushed as been wonderful and protesters will be attracted to 'their' unique community forming.
Expect to see a lot of traction surround big 'name' brand protest groups and charming individuals ready to guide people into fake or totally infiltrated movements.
http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_11_02/FBI-was-interested-in-selling-the-material-to-WikiLeaks-in-order-for-them-to-be-charged-with-espionage-Crabtree-3397/
What did the past look like?
"'Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with activists'"
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/22/undercover-police-cleared-sex-activists
Another aspect is just for slang and keeping up with the ability to 'blend' in.

Saudis Threaten Russia With Olympic Terrorist Attacks Unless It Abandons Syria Support
Saudi Arabia threatens Russia with Olympic Terror
Saudis offer Russia secret oil deal if it drops Syria
Bandar Bush threatens President Putin with Sochi terrorist attack
Putin Orders Massive Strike Against Saudi Arabia If West Attacks Syria

There's really no need to hire someone in Damascus. Just send the chemicals from the CIA to the Saudi Mukhabarat, they'll pass it on to Al Nusra or an like-minded affiliate and BOOM there's your red line.

And there are stories already, where some rebels tell an AP reporter that their guys were just transporting/storing the shit for another group, and didn't know what it was, and there was this accident, and a bunch of their guys got killed.

You mean stories like this?

Could even be true. Of course, it could be a cover story for a rebel gas attack intended to be blamed on the government ("we didn't do it on purpose!"), or one rebel group setting another up to take the fall, or it could be Syrian government disinformation (Russian news sources are carrying this story), or it could just be another rumor in the fog of war.

What about the WingNutDaily; my guess: being a conservative creature, WND would be as far as possible from embracing Russia as one can imagine.

Where " trouble-makers" is the set of people trying to use truck bombs, car bombs, and suicide vests, plus various experiments with poison gas and plague, to kill masses of innocent people, yes.

Ummm... some would say US is happily in bed with such trouble makers.
But this can't be true... or can it?

That was a very interesting comment. I have not been following this case other than what has seeped in by osmosis, but what you are saying sounds both plausible and very different from the picture the media are painting. I'm trying to track down some of your sources, so I can read more about it (it would have been helpful if you had included URLs in your post).

1. Obama's red line.
2. I can't find the cat video in question on youtube, it seems to drown in videos of the more recent gassing episodes.
3. I think I found a source for the leaked emails, though the paste referred to in that article had been deleted.
4. I found this source for the Feburary home-made Sarin usage by the FSA
5. I this this is the FSA Sarin transport episode. I also did found other similar news from the same source: FSA chemical weapon factory discovered.
6. I found plenty of sources for the kidnapping indicent, including this