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October 16, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/al-qaeda-linked-groups-taking-root-in-syria/2013/10/13/11d01b12-334c-11e3-8627-c5d7de0a046b_story_2.html

Jihadists See Syria Insurgency as the Road to Jerusalem

(Washington Post) Loveday Morris, Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet - According to Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, "Syria has become the most important destination for aspiring jihadists ever, because it is the heart of the Muslim world on the border of Palestine." "For jihadis, it is the road to Jerusalem at last."

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