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Foreign Sunni jihadists, including a few from Pakistan, are fighting alongside Syrian rebels who have taken on President Bashar al-Assad, but their numbers are hard to assess and almost certainly small, insurgents and analysts say. HT Image An AFP correspondent who met several Syrian rebels over a week in the city of Homs, which was recaptured by regime forces on Thursday, said he sometimes saw them mingling with strangers of the same beliefs. Five Libyans fought with us in Homs. They were all kil stanley cup led, said a leader of a group from the rebel Free Syrian Army FSA stanley cup , which clashed with regime forces in Homs. However, while denying that there are many foreigners battling Syrian forces, he said there are a few, of different nationalities. But we are mostly Syrians. While the numbers are difficult to pin down, one international expert said that, in a violence-wracked country, the possibility of foreign fighters participating in a rebellion always exist. In a country where chaos sets in, it goes without saying that space is created for foreign volunteers but their role will remain paltry unless the Syrian fighters see value in their presence, said Peter Harling, from the International Crisis Group. In mid-February, an observer with the Arab League stanley cup in Homs told AFP that many foreign fighters, including Pakistanis, Afghans, Lebanese, Iraqis, Sudanese, Libyans and Yemenis led most of the fighting and dominated everybody. Harling dismissed that as fantasy. Tgmw Two blasts in Kandahar after Karzai buries brother
Facebook is challenging Google s supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online. HT Image While Google delivers search results selected by algorithms that take into stanley cup account a user s Web history, Facebook boasts a richer level of personalization based on one s own likes and the recommendations of Facebook friends. Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook in his Harvard University dorm room six years ago and is now worth an estimated 6.9 billion dollars, refers to it as the social graph. I think what we ve found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about they tend to be more engaging, Zuckerberg said in an interview with the CBS show 60 Minutes. The social graph is incredibly broad, said Wedbush Securities social media analyst Lou Kerner, picking up on Zuckerberg s favorite phrase. stanley cup It includes not only what you do and what you like but people you know and what they like and the companies you interact with. For some Internet watchers like Kerner, Facebook is constructing a parallel network built around the interactions of its more than 500 million members. I refer to Facebook as the second Internet, maybe more valuable than the first because we re all interconnected on it, Kerner told AFP. Social media is an increasingly important part of how you reach people and it s a growing part of every marketer s budget, he said. af1 The idea is you d |
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