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</html><description>[Landis comment] An article by Khairi Janbek published at the Washington&nbsp;Post Global site (and copied at the bottom of this post) is full of mistakes&nbsp;and old canards. One is that the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood is the only opposition and it favors the regime in order to preserve stability. It doesn't favor the regime and states [&hellip;]</description><thumbnail_url>http://adimg.sv.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=AD&amp;Date=20080912&amp;Category=REVIEW&amp;ArtNo=725899346&amp;Ref=V3&amp;Profile=1008&amp;Maxw=145&amp;maxh=110</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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