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fact that Mr. Obama ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden. He has tried to focus instead on how details be
a disturbing signal of prospects for stability after Assad goes. Western and Arab powers have spent more than a year trying to turn the exile-based Syrian National Council into a legitimate alternative national leadership, to no avail. It remains divided and EFTA00701760 ineffectual, and lacks legitimacy among popul
gain, the strategy, aided by the killing of Osama bin Laden by a Navy SEAL team, worked to a degree. With Al
vously identified as the "Shia crescent." Washington is assuming that the Muslim Brotherhood, the most influential party within the Istanbul-based Syrian National Council, would end the Iran-Syria alliance if it came to power. The organization's deputy secretary, Mohammed Faruk Tayfur, told The Washington Times on Ja
bout drone strikes that have successfully taken out enemy combatants in the War on Terror. The RQ- 170 Sentinel was deployed in the raid that killed bin Laden, and U.S. officials boast of eliminating two more of Al Qaeda's top operatives in Pakistan in recent months. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has cal
atrocities carried out by Bashar al-Assad and his aides, who belong to all religious sects." According to Monzer Makhouz, an Alawite member of the Syrian National Council, a leading opposition group, Alawites are joining protests in the coastal cities of the Alawite territory. And in recent weeks, evidence has emerge
Entities connected to both Bin Laden and Syrian National Council

Osama bin Laden
PERSON
Barack Obama
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Department of Justice
ORGANIZATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Marc Rich
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Virginia Giuffre
PERSON
Joe Biden
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
Yemen
LOCATION
Hillary Clinton
PERSON
Middle East
LOCATION
al-Qaeda
ORGANIZATION
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Cairo
LOCATION