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The United States is drawing up plans for military action in Syria against Islamic State fighters, but Turkey had made clear it did not want to take a frontline role, partly because of fears for the fate of the hostages.
Turkey, a Nato member that shares a long border with Syria, has so far declined to take a frontline role, fearful that the military action will strengthen President Bashar al-Assad and bolster the Syrian Kurdish militants allied to the outlawed PKK in Turkey.
One party source argued Turnbull and Baird taking a frontline role would help counter perceptions they were removed from the grassroots of the Liberal party.
She said Tony Blair, who on Tuesday took a frontline role in the election campaign to back Miliband, had been elected in 1997 on a groundswell of "hope and optimism".
Turkey has been reluctant to take part in the US-led alliance dedicated to eradicating the extremist group and hasn't taken a frontline role despite land borders with both Iraq and Syria.
His successor Gordon Brown hinted at a return to front-line politics last week as he went on the attack against Alex Salmond in Kilmarnock, taking a more frontline role in the Better Together campaign.
The officer said he had regularly seen Shabiha groups work alongside regime forces, but said they appeared to take orders from intelligence officers, particularly the Air Force Intelligence Directorate, which has played a frontline role in the regime crackdown.
From virtual obscurity, they are summoned from the backroom and thrown into a frontline role for which they have little preparation.
Ankara has been reluctant to take part in the US-led alliance dedicated to eradicating the extremist group as a result, and has so far refused a frontline role despite land borders with both Iraq and Syria.
A senior western source told the Guardian that Saudi Arabia felt so threatened by Isis that it was prepared to act in a frontline role.
Seen as being on the left of the Conservative Party, he has not played a frontline role in UK politics for some years.
