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It is good really that public opinion prevailed in the Syria crisis because the west would now be firmly supporting Al Qaeda forces mingled in with "freedom fighters" .....Al Qaeda forces are now apparently turning against any rebel militia units that oppose them & are flying Al Qaeda flags openly,  wiping out Christians as well as  championing demands for the introduction of sharia law in a "free Syria".

 

Experts estimate that as many as 7/10,000  Al Qaeda troops are operating in Syria & many more thousands in Somalia.

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Israel has the right to say whatever it wants within reason, unless there is some embargo against Israel saying what it thinks? Now here's an "off the wall" thought, would Israel want to waste time and money developing nuclear weapons if it didn't feel threatened by the majority of its neighbours?

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Did anyone see the BBC programme about the Ottoman empire ? It was on last Sunday & i think there are 2 more episodes , but i only managed to watch it last night .

 

Apparently it disintegrated about 1916 after getting on for 700 years & leaving the modern  Arab countries that we now see bordering the Med. The programme said a lot of the modern day problems in the middle east stem from the religious  actions of the Ottomans turning Sunni against Shia muslims & vice versa.

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