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"Jamal Maarouf. He heads a group called the Syria Revolutionaries Front"

"I spoke Thursday by phone with Maarouf"

"FSA's overall commander, Abdul-IIlah al-Bashir"

"The previous Free Syrian Army leader in the north, Gen Salim Idriss"

"sending his forces into Crimea. It was a blunder. In taking over Crimea, Putin has lost Ukraine."

"terrorist from the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Tayyiba group, Sayed Zabiuddin Ansar"

"Since the crown prince also serves as minister of defense"

"Bruce Riedel is the director of the Intelligence Project at the Brookings Institution"

"Roosevelt issued his ultimatum entirely in private... On December 17, convinced that Roosevelt was serious, the Germans backed down"

"On August 18, 2011, Obama issued a statement calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to leave office"

"On February 28, Obama warned Putin that 'there will be costs' if Russia sent troops to the Ukraine"

"former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano—to represent the United States"

"Secretary of State John Kerry"

"defied the Obama administration by granting asylum to Edward Snowden"

"Russia, for its part, backed Assad in Syria"

"Last week's meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama must have been tense."

"Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations"

"Uri Sadot is a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations"

"was a deputy national security advisor in the George W. Bush administration"