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rotherhood has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14-month uprising against President Bashar al- Assad. Exiled Brotherhood members and their supporters hold the biggest number of seats in the Syrian National Council, the main opposition umb
has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14-month uprising against President Bashar al- Assad. Exiled Brotherhood members and their supporters hold the biggest number of seats in the Syrian National Council, the main opposition umbrella gro
concealed its intention to turn to new patrons in the region. EFTA00630296 Tehran believes that Syria has fallen victim to a foreign plot. While Bashar al-Assad is carrying out reforms, Tehran says, there are foreign parties solely concerned with Assad's alliance with the axis of resistance, that wreak havo
e hallmarks of an al-Qaeda attack, deepening suspicions that militants have been relocating from Iraq to Syria. On Saturday, a group calling itself the al-Nusra Front asserted responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on a jihadist Web site. The Brotherhood is eager to distance itself from the jihadists
ruiting supporters within the ranks of the still largely secular protest movement, whose unifying goal is the ouster of the regime led by President Bashar al-Assad. But if the United Nations' peace plan fails to end the government's bloody crackdown and promises of Western and Arab help for the rebel Free S
al. Although many Syrian opposition activists insist that their revolution is not sectarian, EFTA00660170 a majority of Syrians are Sunnis, while Assad, along with most leading figures in the regime and in the security forces, belongs to the Shiite- affiliated Alawite minority, lending a sectarian d
least four alleged Jordanian militants accused of trying to sneak into Syria to join the revolutionaries. A previously unknown group calling itself the al-Nusra Front has asserted responsibility for bombings in the cities of Damascus and Aleppo using language and imagery reminiscent of the statements and videos p
rael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and AIPAC supporters in Washington remained nearly silent for weeks, even EFTA00678420 after evidence of Bashar al-Assad's murderous chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians outside Damascus. And they remained quiet even after Obama indicated that he was preparing a
t followed the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and EFTA00678416 Moammar Gaddafi in Libya; and preventing the future use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime in a desperate last stand. These issues are crucial, so they're worth special attention. "I don't anticipate revenge killing," said Fand, ad
nized in five sectors of the Damascus area, "is ready to take over government ministry buildings to ensure security and stop looting." He said that the al-Nusra Front and other extremist organizations that are strong in northern Syria are relatively weak in Damascus, an assessment shared by other analysts. This
rotherhood has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14- month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Exiled Brotherhood members and their supporters hold the biggest number of seats in the Syrian National Council, the main opposition umbrella gro
pt, to which the Syrian branch is very loosely affiliated. Syria's Muslim Brotherhood would support NATO intervention to help the opposition topple Assad, and it has published a manifesto outlining its vision of a future democratic state that makes no mention of Islam and enshrines individual liberti
e hallmarks of an al-Qaeda attack, deepening suspicions that militants have been relocating from Iraq to Syria. On Saturday, a group calling itself the al-Nusra Front asserted responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on a jihadist Web site. The Brotherhood is eager to distance itself from the jihadist
Entities connected to both Bashar al-Assad and the al-Nusra Front

Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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Bill Clinton
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Damascus
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Hosni Mubarak
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Middle East
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Tunisia
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Saddam Hussein
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Marc Rich
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Jerusalem
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Fatah
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Mahmoud Abbas
PERSON
Prince Andrew
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Ehud Barak
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Mohamed Morsi
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