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groups have worked with the United States and other European and Arab supporters to try to form a cohesive, inclusive movement dedicated to a democratic and multiethnic state.
• But those fighting the Assad government range wildly in political and ethnic beliefs and not all are interested in Western support.
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• CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian authorities on Wednesday arrested two more Islamist figures: a top ally of the Muslim Brotherhood as he reportedly tried to flee to neighboring Libya disguised as a woman, and a spokesman for the Islamist group on his way to catch a flight out of the country.
• The arrests are the latest in a crackdown by Egypt's new military-backed leaders against the Muslim Brotherhood group, from which ousted President Mohammed Morsi hails.
• They came just a day after authorities detained the Brotherhood's supreme leader and spiritual guide, Mohammed Badie, dealing a serious blow to the embattled movement that is now struggling to keep up street protests against the military's overthrow of Morsi.
• Badie was arrested in an apartment in the Cairo district of Nasr City, close to the site of a sit-in encampment that was forcibly cleared by security forces last week, triggering violence that killed hundreds of people.
• Hundreds, including the group's former lawmakers, politicians, and field operatives are already in custody.
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• DECATUR, Ga. (AP) -- Rufus Morrow was at work when he got a phone call with the worst news he could imagine: Shots fired at his daughter's elementary school.
• He drove "about 90 mph" to Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy where 800 or so students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade had been evacuated Tuesday in an Atlanta suburb. The police chief says a 20-year-old man with an assault rifle and other weapons was able to slip into the school where visitors must

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