A jihadist group prospers in Syria

For more than a year, the Obama administration has been assuring the world that the downfall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is ?a matter of time.? Yes, its own Middle East experts warned, but how much time matters. The longer the fighting goes on, they said, the more likely it is that what began as a peaceful mass opposition movement would be hijacked by extremists, including allies of al-Qaeda.

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