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Rebels Say West's Inaction Is Pushing Syrians to Extremism


(New York Times) C.J. Chivers - Majed al-Muhammad, the commander of a Syrian antigovernment fighting group, offered a warning to the West now commonly heard among fighters seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad: The Syrian people are being radicalized by a combination of a grinding conflict and their belief that they have been abandoned by a watching world. None of the half-dozen fighting groups visited by journalists for the New York Times reported seeing any donations of American nonlethal aid.
2012-10-09 00:00:00
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