Qaeda tells Syria fighters to shun secularists in sign of deeper rebel rift

DUBAI | Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:52am EDT

(Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has told the Islamist militants who are some of Syria's toughest opposition forces to avoid alliances with other rebel fighters backed by Gulf Arab states and the West.http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/15/us-syria-crisis-qaeda-idUSBRE98E06L20130915