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SYRIA News, Nov 20, 2011


Arab League rejects Syrian demand to change peace plan
BBC News
The Arab League has rejected a demand by Syria to alter its plan for ending the country's conflict, which has reportedly left at least 3500 dead. It dismissed Syria's demand to amend its proposal for a 500-strong observer mission to be sent to the ...
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BBC News
Dozens of Syrian Citizens Brutally Beaten by Opposition in front of AL ...
Syrian Arab News Agency
CAIRO, (SANA)- The Syrian delegation, who traveled to Cairo to express the Syrianpeople's rejection of the Arab League (AL) decision against their homeland and the foreign interference in Syria's internal affairs, was brutally beaten in front of the ...
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Syria 'at point of no return': Barak
The Australian
SYRIA's president has reached "a point of no return" and faces the same fate as former despots in Libya and Iraq, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said. "I think that he went beyond the point of no return, no way that he will he resume his authority ...
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Syria's strife may portend civil war
Sacramento Bee
By Anthony Shadid BEIRUT – A harrowing sectarian war has spread across the Syriancity of Homs this month, with supporters and opponents of the government blamed for beheadings, rival gangs carrying out tit-for-tat kidnappings, minorities fleeing for ...
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Clashes in Cairo...Syria's Assad speaks...UC Davis protest probe
9&10 News
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad says he won't budge. In an interview with Britain's Sunday Times newspaper published today, Assad vowed to continue with a security crackdown to crush 'militants' who he says are massacring Syrians on daily ...
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BALKANS: Syrians Demand A Turkish Invasion
Strategy Page
November 19, 2011: The Syrian National Council (SNC), an umbrella organization that claims to represent many Syrian rebel groups, is asking for international intervention inSyria. International is a euphemism for Turkey and NATO. ...
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Canada, US servers host Syria, Hezbollah-affiliated content
Al-Arabiya
(File photo) By AL ARABIYA WITH AGENCIES Canadian, American and German web servers hosting Syrian government websites could be in violation of sanctions against Damascus, a report has said on Sunday. The government websites, including one belonging to ...
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Al-Arabiya
Dead at 15 - the schoolboy whose murder shows how Syria's cycle of violence is ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Mohammed, a 15-year-old Syrian: just another of the hundreds of young symbols of this year's struggles to get rid of Arab dictators. According to activists, 282 children have died in Syria alone. He was killed in his home town near the Iraqi border in ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Syrian FM says Arab League being used as tool
Newsday
Click here Syrian FM says Arab League being used as tool Originally published: November 20, 2011 2:59 AM Updated: November 20, 2011 8:53 AM By The Associated Press ZEINA KARAM (Associated Press) (AP) --Syria's foreign minister has attacked the Arab ...
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Newsday
Arab mission compromises Syria sovereignty: minister
Reuters
AMMAN (Reuters) - An Arab League plan to send a monitoring mission to Syriacompromises the country's sovereignty but Damascus has not rejected the mission,Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Sunday. Moualem told reporters in the Syrian ...
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Hundreds Injured in Renewed Egypt Protests; 24 Killed in Syria
BusinessWeek
In Syria, where an Arab League deadline for the regime of Bashar al-Assad to end violence against protesters ended yesterday, Assad's security forces killed 24 people across the country, Al-Jazeera reported, citing unidentified activists. ...
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Libya no blueprint for missions in Syria, Iran: MacKay
CTV.ca
However, he cautioned that NATO tactics used in the north African nation cannot be considered a blueprint for potential interventions in other countries, such as Syria or Iran. Speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum, MacKay said there was ...
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CTV.ca
Understanding Russia's interest in Syria's conflict
Vanguard
By HUGO ODIOGOR Syria is at war and the country is literally on the verge of disaster as we saw in Libya for eight months. The Syrian conflict has lasted for the same period and now things seem to have come to a boiling point with the emergence of the ...
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Syria, the out come!
VGChartz
So today I was watching yet another debate on Syria. One that I found interesting it was a group of analysts on BBC and I saw a similar debate on CBC with some military personnel and such. Basically they said that Syria is likely to fall apart and ...
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Gas crisis in Syria to end in four days
Xinhua
20 (Xinhua) -- Syrian Oil Minister Sufian Allaw stressed that the gas crisis in Syriawould end within four days, blaming the recent shortage in gas cylinders on threats by armed groups to attack freight trains that transfer gas from the northwestern ...
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Homs: inside the city at the heart of Syria's rebellion
The Guardian
On Thursday morning, I woke up in Homs, the city labelled by the international media as the "capital of the Syrian revolution". Homs has been in more or less open revolt since at least April, but in recent weeks what is going on here has acquired ...
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The Guardian
Iranian, Chinese Envoys Oppose Foreign Interference in Syria
Fars News Agency
The Iranian ambassador told al-Manar TV on Saturday that Syria will come out stronger from the crisis, stressing that Syria will keep its support to resistance to the end. Roknabadi voiced Iran's standing by the Syrianleadership's reforms program, ...
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Fars News Agency
Why did the tyrants' club finally turn on Syria?
Calgary Herald
Gamal Nasser of Egypt hailed "the people of Syria" who had, through war and struggle, "proved that they are the beating heart of Arabism." If that is still true, then the country just went into cardiac arrest. The Arab League, largely a dysfunctional ...
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Dissident Syrian colonel: no arms smuggled into Syria
Reuters Africa
BEIRUT, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The leader of Syria's army deserters has denied in a television interview weapons are being smuggled from abroad to defectors, after Damascus accused neighbouring states of allowing arms to flow across their borders. ...
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Ahhhh, peaceful Syria (Virginia)
Austin American-Statesman
From Syria, you can take a day trip natural caverns, historic towns and Civil War battlegrounds. Above, a cannon rests on the battlefield at Chancellorsville, Va., about an hour from Syria. As part of a technology change, commenting will not be ...
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Austin American-Statesman
More Cairo protests...Libyans celebrate Gadhafi son's capture... Crackdown ...
9&10 News
BEIRUT (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime to end its eight-month crackdown on anti-government protesters. On Saturday, activists saySyrian troops stormed a central town and a northwestern region in search of regime ...
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Interview: why Turkey's President Abdullah Gul believes his country's moment ...
Telegraph.co.uk
In the south, Syria's bloody uprising grows more violent by the day, while to the east Iran continues its dangerous nuclear dance, frustrating and frightening world leaders. In the west, Greece is struggling to keep its entire economy from collapsing. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Guide to the Syrian opposition
BBC News
Syrians have risked a violent crackdown to express their opposition to the government in recent months. The Syrian government faces a challenge from a variety of opposition groups, some of which have existed for many years and others which have sprung ...
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BBC News
Syrians in America turn to technology to help their countryman get message out
Public Radio International PRI
Muna Jandal, who lives in Flint, Mich., is one of several Syrian-Americans getting pictures and videos from Syria out to the wider world. (Photo by Assia Boundaoui.) The Shaam News Network, run mostly by Syrians living in America, is providing tools ...
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Dom Joly: Magnificent Syria deserves leaders to match
The Independent
As Syria slowly falls apart on blurry mobile phone footage, it brings back so many memories of this wonderful country. Growing up in Lebanon, I travelled all over Syria, from the opulent souks of Damascus to clambering the walls of Krak des Chevaliers, ...
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Arab League: Ensure Effective Syria Monitoring Mission | Human ...
By Human Rights Watch
(New York) – The Arab League should ensure that Syria grants its monitoring mission unhindered access to conflict zones and detention facilities, and that it can operate independent of Syrian security services and other authorities, Human ...
Condoleezza Rice: Syria's Assad 'Is No Friend Of The United States'
By The Huffington Post News Editors
WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Syrian President Bashar Assad is taking his country to the brink of civil war. Rice tells CNN's "State of the Union" that Assad's crackdown is creating a very dangerous ...
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Syria: Arab League deadline expires, clashes continue — RT
By RT
The Arab League ultimatum for Syria's leadership to end violence has expired. Meanwhile, fresh clashes have erupted across the country.
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Syria's Assad vows to continue crackdown: report | The Raw Story
By Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was quoted on Saturday as saying he would press on with a crackdown against anti-government unrest in his country despite increased pressure from the Arab League to end it. ...
The Raw Story
Free Egypt, Free Syria from Regina | Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff
By saskboy
If any social movement arose that posed any real threat to the establishment of power in Canada, it would be treated with as much brutality as the dissidents in Syria are being treated today. The Government of Syria probably has about the ...
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff
America's Media War on Syria | BobTuskin.com
By admin
Since then, Syria's been ravaged by violence. Hundreds have been killed, many more injured. Civilians and state security forces have been affected. Conflict rages daily. Casualties mount. Regime change is planned to establish another US ...
BobTuskin.com
Understanding Russia's interest in Syria's conflict
By alexsamade
The Arab League suspended Syria last week while Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey and Qatar have openly condemned the killing of Syrians accused by government of being agents of the West. Turkey especially is bearing the weight of the ...
Vanguard News
Meanwhile in Syria - Blog - The Arabist
By Issandr El Amrani
As it descends into sectarian hatred, Homs has emerged as a chilling window on what civil war in Syria could look like, just as some of Syria's closest allies say the country appears to be heading in that direction. A spokesman for the Syrian ...
Feed for Arabist.net
Turkey - Syria: New War In The Making - OpEd
By Palestine Chronicle
By Jeremy Salt Possibly for the first time in the life of the Turkish republic, a Turkish government has adopted a policy of open, unprovoked confrontat.
Eurasia Review
The Complexity of Syria.
By Layla Anwar
A strange combination of Shiism and Druze ideology. Alawites are a minority in Syria, originally from the lower echelons of society. Their rise to power under the Assad rule and their grip on key sectors of government was ensured by placing ...
An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections...
BBC News - Syria: Arab League sets deadline to end 'repression'
The Arab League says it is giving Syria three days to "stop the bloody repression" of protesters and allow in observers or face economic sanctions.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15762260
Al-Assad: Syria 'will not bow down' - CNN.com
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned that any potential military intervention against his country would lead to "very dire" repercussions.
www.cnn.com/2011/11/20/world/meast/syria.../index.html
Arab League votes to suspend Syria in 4 days – USATODAY.com
The Arab League voted Saturday to suspend Syria in four days and warned it could face sanctions if it does not end its bloody crackdown against ...
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-11-12/Arab.../1
Arab League To Suspend Syria From Meetings | Fox News
The Arab League voted Saturday to suspend Syria in four days and warned it could face sanctions if it does not end its bloody crackdown against ...
www.foxnews.com/.../arab-league-suspends-syria-from-meetin...
Syria stops payments to Shell and Total - FT.com
Syria has stopped paying for oil produced within the country by Royal Dutch Shell and Total, highlighting the economic tensions affecting Bashar al-Assad's ...
www.ft.com/.../118eec00-0bb7-11e1-9310-00144feabdc0.ht...
Report: Russia warships to enter Syria waters in bid to stem foreign ...
Syrian official says Damascus agrees 'in principle' to allow entrance of Arab League observer mission; 22-member body proposed sending hundreds of ...
www.haaretz.com/.../report-russia-warships-to-enter-syria-wate...
Syria crackdown toll rises despite Arab peace deal: U.N. | Reuters
AMMAN (Reuters) - More than 3500 people have been killed in Syria's crackdown on protesters, the United Nations said Tuesday, as the military pressed its ...
www.reuters.com/article/.../us-syria-idUSTRE7A62Z5201111...
Syria's Christians back Assad, fear unknown future
Christians in Syria, unlike the Kurds, are quite well off and some even hold senior positions in the government. This might be one of the causes that have raised ...
news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/.../c_131243107.htm
Syria opposition demands Arab League action - Los Angeles Times
Demonstrators across Syria demanded Friday that the Arab League take decisive action against the government of President Bashar Assad, opposition activists ...
articles.latimes.com/.../la-fg-syria-protests-crimes-20111112
On Syria's Border With Turkey, Unrest Divides Communities ...
The unrest in Syria has torn or tangled the ties that have long bound communities on each side of its border with Turkey.
www.nytimes.com/.../on-syrias-border-with-turkey-unrest-divi...
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