(Reuters) Paul Taylor - The leader of Syria's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, London-based Ali Bayanouni, scents power after forming a coalition with secular, nationalist, liberal, Communist, and Kurdish opposition parties. He said only international acquiescence was keeping President Bashar al-Assad in power, and urged the West to boycott his government, predicting that the regime would collapse without international protection as it had no public support. Bayanouni voiced a close affinity for the Palestinian militant movement Hamas.
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