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There's no accessing the new English-language Al-Jazeera site most of the time, but wire reports elsewhere indicate that A-J has two breaking stories of interest this afternoon: Syrian volunteers are now arriving in Mosul to fight for the Iraqis (the first concrete evidence for the Iraqi claim earlier today that 4,000 Arabs from outside Iraq have journeyed there to fight the US), and there may be heavy civilian casualties in the U.S.'s latest attacks on Basra.

And now: Islamic Jihad says it's sent forces, too.