Still, "what cannot happen is that you only communicate through social networks, " said Guillermo Amador, director of local social media consultancy DosPuntoUno in Caracas.

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The FSA and the local committees valiantly organising resistance within Syria have so far created only tenuous national networks.

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In fact, it might be recalled that only after much international prodding did the government even acknowledge in late 2001 the existence of terrorist training camps in Indonesia, only to have their Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda deny there was evidence that local Muslim organizations had ties to international terrorist networks.

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