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‘I am alive and well chilling in Istanbul having a martini:’ Rogue U.S. Army veteran fighting for Syrian rebels confirms he is ALIVE after pro-Assad group posts video claiming he’s been killed

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By Hayley Peterson

PUBLISHED: 16:15 GMT, 15 March 2013 | UPDATED: 21:35 GMT, 15 March 2013

A U.S. Army veteran who was fighting for Syrian rebel forces says he is alive and well after a pro-Syrian government group posted a video on YouTube claiming that he had been killed.The bloodied face of someone resembling Eric Harroun, 30, of Phoenix, was shown in the video, which was posted Wednesday under the title, ‘Terrorists, including American Extremist “Eric Harroun” Have Been Terminated.’

But Harroun told MailOnline from his personal email account on Friday that ‘Syrian Media must be smoking something, because I am alive and well chilling in Istanbul having a martini at the moment.’

MailOnline obtained Harroun’s email address from a family member and has communicated with him in the past using the same email address.

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Eric Harroun (right), a 30-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Pheonix, has joined al Qaeda alias Jabhat Al-Nusra after months of fighting with Syrian rebelsEric Harroun (right), a 30-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Phoenix, has joined al Qaeda alias Jabhat al-Nusra after months of fighting with Syrian rebels

1 dead, 10 arrested in anti-terror sweep in France

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Yahoo News:French police officers, left, stand guard at the entrance of a building in Strasbourg, France, Saturday Oct. 6, 2012, as plainclothed policemen carrying clues, right, leave, after a suspect was shot dead for firing at police. French anti-terrorism forces carried out raids in cities nationwide on Saturday, at least five people were arrested in the investigation into the firebombing of a kosher grocery outside Paris last month. (AP Photo/Jean Francois Badias)

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PARIS (AP) — Police carried out raids across France on Saturday after DNA on a grenade that exploded last month at a kosher grocery store led them to a suspected jihadist cell of young Frenchmen recently converted to Islam.

The man whose DNA was identified, named by police as Jeremy Sydney, was killed by police after he opened fire on them, slightly wounding three officers in the eastern city of Strasbourg. Officials said he had been under surveillance since last spring — around the time a French Islamic went on a shooting rampage against a Jewish school and French soldiers, killing seven people.

Ten other suspects, aged between 19 and 25, were arrested across the country on Saturday. One man was carrying a loaded gun, and police found weapons, cash and a list of Paris-area Israeli associations during the raids.

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