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Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303342104579097120445831650.html
A New Islamist Alliance among Syria's Rebels
(Wall Street Journal Europe) Daniel Nisman - The creation of the Islamic Alliance has the potential to make anti-Assad moderates extinct. The Alliance is a potent concoction of some of the most popular and combat-effective units, which have united under a dangerously anti-Western banner - a merger of the moderate-Islamist stream and the Salafist stream. While numbering 30-40% of Syria's rebels, their units are among the most well-trained, organized and combat-effective.