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Islamist extremists seek control of Syria amid unabated violence | A number of Islamist extremists are seeking to take control of Syria, which is engulfed in its second year of
revolution amid signs of a UN mandated ceasefire plan. Activists and rebel soldiers in Syria have said that a growing number of Islamist radicals affiliated with
global jihadi movements have been arriving in opposition strongholds and attempting
to gain support from disaffected residents. Western diplomats have said that they
were tracking arrival of jihadists into Syria from Iraq , Washington Post reports.
The Jordan Government had detained at least four alleged Jordanian militants accused
of trying to sneak into Syria to join the revolutionaries. A previously unknown
group calling itself the al-Nusra Front claimed responsibilities for bombings
in the cities of Damascus and Aleppo . Syrian activists and Western officials
believed that the militants unifying goal was the ouster of the President Bashar
al-Assad's regime. U.S. officials and Western diplomats in the region have claimed
that they have seen several indications that al-Qaeda-like groups have been trying
to inject into the Syrian revolution. The Syrian Government had facilitated the
flow of foreign fighters into Iraq for many years, and there are widespread suspicions
that it may be covertly reactivating some of those networks to discredit the revolutionaries,
deter international support for the opposition and create conditions under which
the harsh crackdown by authorities will appear justified. Syrian activists and
rebels insist that the extremists were not welcomed in their communities that
had pride over its tolerance of the religious minorities in their midst, including
Christians, Alawites, Druze, Kurds and Ismaili Shiites. Many activists, however,
fear that the influence of the extremists was growing as Syrian rebels who have
for months appealed in vain for Western military intervention look for help elsewhere. |
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