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July 24, 2012

NYT: Al Qaeda taking deadly new role in Syria conflict

by Rod Nordland
The New York Times

CAIRO -- It is the sort of image that has become a staple of the Syrian revolution, a video of masked men calling themselves the Free Syrian Army and brandishing AK-47s -- with one unsettling difference. In the background hang two flags of Al Qaeda, white Arabic writing on a black field.

''We are now forming suicide cells to make jihad in the name of God,'' said a speaker in the video using the classical Arabic favored by Al Qaeda.

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