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Syria faces neo-mujahideen struggle
Asia Times Online ^ | Victor Kotsev

Posted on 05/12/2012 11:17:51 PM PDT by Pride_of_the_Bluegrass

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may have won a battle earlier this year (as the retreat of the Free Syrian Army from the ruined city of Homs testifies), but he is nowhere near winning the war. The uprising is quickly turning into a full-scale insurgency - a foreign-sponsored insurgency, to be more precise, which some analysts term a "neo-mujahideen strategy".

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: erdogan; iran; pkk; syria; turkey; wot

1 posted on 05/12/2012 11:17:56 PM PDT by Pride_of_the_Bluegrass
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Thanks Pride_of_the_Bluegrass.


2 posted on 05/13/2012 3:58:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Pride_of_the_Bluegrass

AQ started that thing many moons ago, and made the plan clear on their sites.

Obama supports.


3 posted on 05/13/2012 4:00:00 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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