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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 put out by al-Qaeda-affiliated organizations in Iraq, although no ev
d in many Syrian communities and are playing a role in the opposition, but they, too, arc to EFTA00660171 be distinguished from the jihadis, said Yezid Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. "People who are local and pious and moving in an Islamist direction and are taking up guns don't hav
's rise is stirring concerns in some neighboring countries and in the wider international community that the fall of the minority Alawite regime in Damascus would be followed by the ascent of a Sunni Islamist government, extending into a volatile region a trend set in Egypt and Tunisia. In those countri
up with a national reach, at a time when most of the uprising's internal leadership is atomized around local committees that don't coordinate, said Yezid Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. "There is no other political party outside of the Brotherhood that has organization across the count
's rise is stirring concerns in some neighboring countries and in the wider international community that the fall of the minority Alawite regime in Damascus would be followed by the ascent of a Sunni Islamist government, extending into a volatile region a trend set in Egypt and Tunisia. In those countr
up with a national reach, at a time when most of the uprising's internal leadership is atomized around local committees that don't coordinate, said Yezid Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. "There is no other political party outside of the Brotherhood that has organization across the count
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Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Tehran
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Tunisia
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Hosni Mubarak
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Saddam Hussein
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Fatah
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Marc Rich
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Jerusalem
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Prince Andrew
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Beirut
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Mohamed Morsi
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Istanbul
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Sudan
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Ankara
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the Persian Gulf
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