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Source: http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/12/24/syria-crisis-israel-idINDEE9BN09120131224
Israel Tracks Syria's Western Jihadis
(Reuters) Ari Rabinovitch - Israel is working with Western countries to track Westerners fighting in Syria, concerned that such militants could attack Israeli or Jewish targets once back home, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday. Of an estimated 10,000 foreign combatants among rebels battling Assad, around 20% are from the West. "Think of a scenario, even one of them returning and getting instructions from someone he worked with, someone he fought beside, someone like (the al-Qaeda-linked) Nusra Front, to carry out an attack," said the official. "This has been keeping us very, very busy lately."