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(CBS News) LONDON – Russian President Vladimir Putin has asserted that “some people want to use militants from al Qaeda… to accomplish their goals in Syria.” In a loosely veiled dig at the U.S. support for Syria’s opposition, Putin argued, “in that case, one should unlock Guantanamo, arm all of its inmates and bring them to Syria to do the fighting.” Putin was playing directly to his home crowd in the interview aired Thursday on Russian television. More in After the Arab Spring Old-school Russians love it when their president talks tough – especially to their old Cold War enemy. To them, Putin’s “some people” was a clear reference to Washington, and his reference to Guantanamo and – by extension – the costly invasion of Iraq, was a guaranteed crowd pleaser. Russia’s President didn’t say it in so many words, but he implied that America, the West, and their allies in the Middle East are backing violent Islamic extremists in Syria to bring down Bashar Assad in a policy blunder that’s bound to fail. There is a grain of truth here. Some al Qaeda fighters, or at least some militants claiming to be al Qaeda, have joined the armed Syrian rebel groups on the ground, and at least some of those men would be eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state in Syria after Assad. Is al Qaeda fighting...

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Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has often spoken up against the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has also lately stepped up his criticism of Iran’s ruling clerics. In remarks carried late Sunday on his website Kaleme.com, Mousavi said the country’s rulers “arrest and beat people in the name of Islam, prevent activities of political parties in the name of Islam, and shut down media in the name of Islam.” The clerical leaders have called pro-opposition protesters enemies of God, or mohareb in Farsi – a crime punishable by death under Iranian law – and have increasingly used the concept as a weapon against opponents. Iran’s judiciary has put more than 100 people on a mass trial on similar charges since August. About a dozen people have been sentenced to death, and 해적게임주소 more than 80 others have received prison terms ranging from six months to 15 years. “You call anybody who speaks against you a … mohareb or overthrower. This is not beneficial to you or the country. This is not compatible with Islam,” Mousavi was quoted as saying. “Islam doesn’t allow beating, libel, keeping people in prison and imposing restrictions.” The opposition argues that Ahmadinejad won the June 2009 election through massive vote fraud and that Mousavi was the rightful winner. More than 80 demonstrators have been killed and hundreds of activists and pro-reform figures arrested in the crackdown...