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January 2, 2013

The Terrorist Danger in Syria

Globe and Mail, Globe and Mail

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The Syrian civil war has reached a point at which the international community – that is to say, the world’s responsible powers – needs to take a more active hand, still with caution, favouring carefully selected insurgent groups that are not Salafist, and have no affinities to al-Qaeda.

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TAGGED: al-Qaeda, Middle East, Syria

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