Last week, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri added to his ever-growing video collection, with an eight-minute lecture supporting the Syrian opposition against President Bashar al-Assad.
It was the latest example of al-Zawahiri's growing focus on opportunities for al Qaeda amid the upheavals in the Arab world, from Iraq to Egypt to Yemen, Libya and now Syria. The video that appeared on jihadist forums Friday damned Syria's "sectarian, secular regime."
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