Posted on 10/22/2011 4:14:37 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Seven months of unrest in Syria approached the brink of all-out armed conflict Monday as 41 people were killed, among them 11 soldiers who clashed with organized army defectors.
Meanwhile, UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged Assad to immediately stop the killings of civilians, a day after the Arab League called for “national dialogue” to end the violence.
“There are continuous killings of civilian people. These killings must stop immediately,” Ban said in Bern.
“I told Assad: ‘Stop before it is too late,’” he said.
“It is unacceptable that 3,000 people have been killed. The U.N. is urging him again to take urgent action.”
The Syrian regime has relied heavily on the Security Council vetoes of China and Russia in recent months to avoid having sanctions imposed by the United Nations.
But according to Reuters, Assad's government, despite heavy pressure from the Arab League and sanctions from the West that has forced it to reduce oil production, has only ramped up its blitzkrieg style hit-and-run crackdown.
Tuesday's violence was focused in the flashpoint city of Homs where Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP in Nicosia 27 people, most of them civilians but some of them police were killed.
Three other civilians, including a 13-year-old boy, were also shot dead in other parts of the country, the Britain-based Observatory said.
“Gunmen suspected of being army defectors blew up a bomb by remote control as an army vehicle passed by Ehssem in the countryside of the [northwestern province of Idlib], killing an officer and three soldiers, and wounding others," Rahman said.
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Which side are you on, tell me, Which side are you on? The right side or the wrong side The weak side or the strong side
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Which side are you on, tell me, Which side are you on?
there must be some reason why hillary, rice, obama, and europe were so anxious to get into egypt and libya,
but not syria.
Cool! Barry the Kid is going to get to carve another notch in his Nobel medallion. It’s been a good year for him. The “media” toadies better keep their “happy dance” shoes on.
Some reason....anyone want to hazard an educated guess what “some reason” is? Anything to do with Iran, perhaps?
“...My father was a Moose Limb
and I’m a Moose Limb’s son
She bonked my lefty mother
And in Indonesia I had fun...”
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You’re a poet and don’t know it.
If you look at your feet, they are Longfellers.
Both France and more recently Russia have long had a love affair with Syria. France truly cares for Syria as Syria, but Russia sees it as a former satellite, much like Cuba. It reminds them of their old glory days.
Likewise, Syria is a place where war criminals, spies, and assassins could run away from justice and retire. As long as they had money, they could rest at night not fearing justice would descend on them.
"but not syria."
Syria is too important to Barry as an enemy of Israel for him to back regime change there as he did in the other places.
We can't let things get too easy for those damned Jews.
Is there going to be any, even one, just a single surviving political henchmen created by the brits and french during the 20th century left other than the USA’s own progressive Democratic Party?
They are urging them to take urgent action....
is this a press release from the office of redundancy office?
If Assad fails to act, they may have to urge him to take urgent action urgently with a greater sense of urgency. I’d hate to see it escalate to that.
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