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Al Qaeda leader urges kidnapping of Westerners

“The international community … is giving Assad a license to kill and one chance after the other to curb the Syrian revolution,” he said. “They are afraid of a government that seeks victory for Islam and Muslims.”

Syria’s most Sunni rebels have received support from fellow Sunnis in the Gulf, while Assad’s regime, dominated by a Shiite offshoot sect, is allied with Shiite-led Iran.

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