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Aug 23, 2011

SYRIA News, Aug 23, 2011


Assad broke word, U.N. chief says
Washington Post
Assad assured Ban in a telephone conversation Wednesday that all police and military operations had stopped. On Friday, Syria's UN envoy, Bashar al-Jafari, repeated the assertion. Amidst calls to step down from the White HouseSyrian President Bashar ...
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UN body urges Syria to halt deadly crackdown
The Bostwana Gazette
DAMASCUS (AFP) - The UN rights body on Monday urged Syria to halt a deadly crackdown on dissent that has cost more than 2200 lives, after its defiant President Bashar al-Assad scoffed at Western calls to step down. Activists, meanwhile, said at least ...
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Syrian protesters taunt Assad, saying regime next to unravel
Al-Arabiya
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Assad for breaking his pledge last week to halt the violence. “It is troubling that he has not kept his word,” Ban said. Syriagranted a UN team permission to visit some of the centers of the protests and ...
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Al-Arabiya
What's Next for Syria
Daily Beast
As Libyan rebel troops gathered to deal +a deathblow to the Gaddafi regime in Tripoli, the broadest coalition yet gathered of Syria's political opposition met in Istanbul to plan how to do the same to President Bashir al-Assad. ...
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Daily Beast
Rebels claim control of Tripoli ...UN chief criticizes Assad of Syria ...
9&10 News
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (bahn kee-moon) is criticizingSyrian President Bashar Assad (bah-SHAR' AH'-sahd) for failing to halt a military crackdown on dissent that has killed nearly 2000 people. Ban says Assad pledged to ...
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Syria: two anti-government protesters shot in Homs as army 'shoot-to-kill'
Telegraph.co.uk
By Alastair Good A United Nations mission arrived in the western city of Homs yesterday to assess the humanitarian situation after five months of protests in Syria. Video posted online appears to show protesters against President Assad's rule being ...
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Analysis: Escalation in Syria will hurt Lebanon
The Daily Star
Assad is facing Western calls to step down over his harsh crackdown on more than five months of protests in which the UN says around 2000 civilians have died, but he saidSyria would not accept outside interference. In a defiant interview broadcast on ...
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The Daily Star
Syrian forces kill three during U.N. visit
UPI.com
The team visited Syria's third-largest city -- a hotbed of anti-regime dissent 100 miles north of Damascus -- after a UN human rights panel said Assad regime forces may have committed crimes against humanity by carrying out summary executions, ...
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IBSA Opposes Measures Against Syria
Inter Press Service
Speaking on Syrian state television on Sunday, Assad rejected calls to step aside, while announcing multi-party elections for parliament would be held in February. A UN humanitarian mission finally on the ground in Syria was greeted by protesters ...
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Dissent in Syria Emerges as Front Line of Arab Uprisings
New York Times
On Sunday, Mr. Assad dismissed Western calls for his resignation as meaningless and signaled that a crackdown the United Nations now estimates has killed 2200 people, 350 this month alone, would go on. That was the case Monday, when security forces ...
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Mideast Expert: Syria's WMD Could Fall to Islamists
NewsMax.com
On the other hand, If the United States or NATO starts to bomb Syria, Assad could fire SCUD missiles into Israel. “It's an extremely dangerous time, mostly characterized by uncertainty . . . a level of which hasn't been seen for years. ...
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Russian foreign minister rules out military intervention in Syria
RIA Novosti
Syria has been rocked by mass protests demanding reforms and the resignation of Assad for almost six months. Pressure from international powers has mounted to end the crackdown. According to UNinvestigators, about 2200 civilians are thought to have ...
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Syria in the dock at top UN rights body
Times of India
GENEVA: Syria was in the dock at an urgent session of the United Nations Human Rights Council which began on Monday and which the US envoy said underscored the increasing international isolation of president Bashar al-Assad . ...
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What's News—
Wall Street Journal
Arab nations demanded Syria allow an international probe on whether crimes against humanity have been committed during the crackdown. Thousands rallied in Syria, calling for Assad to resign. TheUN said hundreds have been killed in recent tribal ...
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"Isolated" Syria in the dock at top UN rights body
Reuters Africa
US envoy Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe said the urgent session, the Geneva forum's second on Syriasince April, underscored the growing international isolation of President Bashar al-Assad. Syria'sambassador Faysal Khabbaz Hamoui rejected UN allegations ...
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SA's embassy staff leave Libya as rebels advance
Independent Online
SA, by contrast, has been strongly criticised by human rights groups for refusing to support any action against Assad on the UN Security Council and for suggesting the violence in Syria is being perpetrated equally by both sides. ...
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Independent Online
The Pentagon's Salvador Option: Death Squads in Iraq & Syria
Scoop.co.nz
In chorus they have described recent events in Syria as a "peaceful protest movement" directed against the government of Bashar Al Assad, when the evidence amply confirms that Islamic paramilitary groups have infiltrated the rallies. ...
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UN body urges Syria to halt crackdown
Ninemsn
The UN rights body has urged Syria to halt a deadly crackdown on dissent that has cost more than 2200 lives, after its defiant President Bashar al-Assad scoffed at Western calls to step down. The Human Rights Council meeting on Syria was prompted by a ...
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Ten things you need to know today
First Post
SYRIANS KILLED AS CROWDS WELCOME UN Syrian security forces killed "several" protestors in Homs yesterday as crowds welcomed the UN team sent to assess the Assad regime's violent repression. In Geneva, UN Human Rights high commissioner Navi Pillay said ...
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LIBYAN WAVE REACHES SYRIA, "ASSAD AFTER GADDAFI"
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
People took to the streets and cried out "Assad after Gaddafi", but the president's militia immediately opened fire on the crowd, a few hours before the arrival of a UN humanitarian mission, which had to wait a good five months before landing in Syria. ...
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Syria and Libya: A Tale of Two Uprisings
NASDAQ
It's interesting, however, that a quick look at the news reveals the Syrian government, under President Bashar al-Assad, has similarly fired at peaceful protesters. The military has also orchestrated a brutal crackdown of government opposition forces ...
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Libya is Liberated!
OnMilwaukee.com (blog)
So far, Syrian armed forces are united behind President Bashar Assad, and there is no sign of a rebel force that NATO or the US can effectively support. Unless the Syrian military cracks, theAssad clan rules. (2) Obama predicted it would take "days, ...
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The Ground Shifts in the Middle East
The Atlantic
Then attention will have to turn to the next act: the one in which we see, in Tunisia and Egypt, in Libya and Syria, if decent, stable, democratic governments can be built. It now looks as if the Arab Spring was the lead-in to a hot summer for the ...
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The Atlantic
Common Sense: Obama's Mideast Mess
Human Events
But first, the White House press office announced new measures to be taken against the oppressive, Iranian-supported regime in Syria. According to this statement, also issued without comment from Mr. Obama, our president finally has decided that Bashar...
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Human Events
Lebanon Safer Than Dubai on Loaded Local Lenders: Arab Credit
Bloomberg
Syria, Lebanon's only land link with the Arab World, has been gripped since March by protests against President Bashar al-Assad's 11-year rule. Assad backs the Hezbollah-dominated government of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, formed on June 13. ...
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Syrian forces kills three during UN team's visit
Pakistan Daily Times
“As of today, over 2200 people have been killed since mass protests began in mid-March, with more than 350 people reportedly killed across Syria since the beginning of Ramazan,” Pillay told the UNHuman Rights Council. Assad stepped up his military ...
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More long-serving dictators in Arab world on way out
Financial Express Bangladesh
This in fine are the stories of Col Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Bashar al-Asad of Syria. The era of family rule with endemic corruption, clinging on to power without any accountability, widespread repression, blatant violation of civil rights, ...
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Reuters World News Highlights 0600 GMT, Aug 23
TrustLaw (blog)
SYRIA - Syrian forces shot dead three people in Homs during a visit by a UN humanitarian team on Monday, activists said, and the United Nations said the death toll from President Bashar al-Assad'scrackdown on protests had reached 2200. ...
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EDITORIAL: AU can redeem itself in Libya
Business Day
Nor does it justify SA's petulant refusal to support any UN resolution condemning Syria'sincreasingly brutal response to prodemocracy demonstrations. There is no logic to this stance, just emotion. And foreign policy and emotion don't mix well. ...
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The World Hates The Weekly Standard
New Republic (blog)
There are a lot of people in Syria right now praying that the Standard uses its next issue to castigate Obama for having failed to depose Assad. I would feel some pity for them were it not scientifically provable that they have no souls. ...
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Arab nations pressure Syria at UN
Newsday (subscription)
Click here Arab nations pressure Syria at UN Originally published: August 22, 2011 9:04 AM Updated: August 22, 2011 11:38 AM By The Associated Press JOHN HEILPRIN (Associated Press) (AP) -- Arab nations demanded Monday that Syria allow an international ...
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Newsday (subscription)
Analysis: Is this Cameron's Falklands?
Politics.co.uk
Instead of being frightened of attacking their own people, leaders like Bashar al-Assad of Syria, could act freely, safe in the knowledge the west could not intervene while it was occupied in Libya. Reports of the rebel forces showed them to be an ...
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Russia, China pressure EU to water down UN text on Syria
UN Watch (press release)
Ms. Atass, from the Syrian city of Homs, heads the Paris-based pro-democracy group France Syrie Démocratie. Lama ATASS, née en Syrie en 1967, militante et activiste syrienne contre le RégimeAssad, fille d'un opposant syrien exilé depuis 1976, ...
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Turkey Raises the Ante on Flotilla Standoff
Commentary
At a time when Turkey has to be worried about instability in Syria, perhaps Erdogan thinks he can wean Hamas away from Iranian influence because it reportedly cut back on its aid to Gaza due to Hamas' lack of support for the Assad regime in Damascus. ...
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Don't Let Russia Use Iran as a Bargaining Chip
National Review Online (blog)
And Russia remains uncomfortable with even the feeble pressure that the Obama administration has placed on Bashar al-Assad's regime for its brutal repression of protesters in Syria. Mutual support forAssad has provided Moscow with another incentive to ...
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Syrians say Assad rule will crumble
The Age
Also Monday, a UN human rights expert says Arab nations agreed to demand that Syria allow an international probe within its borders to see whether crimes against humanity have been committed. Jean Ziegler, a member of the UN Human Rights Council's ...
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End to Gadhafi's 42-year rule
동아일보
The world is closely observing Syria and North Korea. These countries maintain dictatorship via hereditary passing of power. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has had more than 2000 of his own people killed to suppress the democratic movement but cannot ...
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World digest: Mass graves across Kashmir region
STLtoday.com
Eight people were killed Monday in Syria, according to activists, after President Bashar Assadrepeated his promises on reform and said that the security situation in Syria had improved. Six people were killed in the central city of Homs when security ...
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Photos of the Day, Aug. 22, 2011
National Post (blog)
... the United Nations Human Rights Council on August 22, 2011 in Geneva to examine the crackdown in Syria after investigators found evidence of crimes against humanity committed by President Bashar al-Assad's regime in its repression of demonstrators. ...
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“Libya has Reignited the Flame of Liberty in the Arab World”: Juan Cole ...
Democracy Now
It's given new hope, a new charge to people in Cairo, in Tunis, and certainly in Syria. President Bashar al-Assad tried to speak on Sunday at a time when Tripoli was collapsing and to dismiss the significance of that. And I think he made himself a ...
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Democracy Now
UN Team Ordered Out Of Syrian Protest City -Spokesman
Zawya (subscription)
The UN team was in the city as part of a mission to assess Syria's humanitarian needs as President Bashar al-Assad pursues a deadly crackdown on protests. "The mission proceeded to Homs todayas planned. A protest situation developed and the mission ...
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US hikers in Iran become political pawns in Mideast tensions
Firstpost
Furthermore, the sentence was handed down two days after US President Barack Obama called for Syrian President Bashar Assad—a close Iran ally—to step down. The incident is thus likely to “raise speculation about Iran using the Americans as political ...
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Firstpost
UN Body Urges Syria to Halt Deadly Crackdown
MyFox Atlanta
(NewsCore) - DAMASCUS -- The UN's human rights arm on Monday urged Syria to halt a deadly crackdown on dissent that has cost more than 2200 lives, after a defiant President Bashar al Assad scoffed at Western calls to step down. The Human Rights Council ...
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MyFox Atlanta
U.N.: Syria Death Toll Reached 2200, Assad Hasn't Kept His Word ...
By Carol Maher
The U.N. rights body held an emergency meeting on Monday to press Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end a deadly crackdown on dissent, a day after he scoffed at Western calls to quit. More than 2200 people have died in the Syrian ...
Radio Sawt Beirut International...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon: Syria's Assad did not fulfill his promise ...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon: Syria's Assad did not fulfill his promise regarding the halt of military and police operations - @AlArabiya_Eng.
Breaking news
Syrian protesters greet UN delegation with SOS signs | Ya Libnan ...
By syh
Syria's state news agency Sana said that Assad formed a committee to approve the formation of rivals to the ruling Ba'ath party in the runup to parliamentary elections early next year. Human rights groups say more than 2000 people have ...
Ya Libnan
Syrians say Assad rule will crumble | Emerald News | Local News in ...
On Monday, Syria's state-run news agency said Assad formed a committee to pave the way for the formation of political groups other than his Baath party, which has held a monopoly in Syria for decades. The opposition rejected Assad's ...
cqnews.com.au: World News
Al-Assad rejects calls for ouster as U.N. team ... - Flash News Today
Speaking on Syrian state TV a day after a U.N. mission arrived in the country, al-Assad was asked about calls from European leaders for him to step down. ...
flashnewstoday.com/.../al-assad-rejects-calls-for-ouster-as-u-n-...
Syrian forces kill more; execute Assad, crowd chants - TODAY News ...
Syrian forces kill more; crowd calls for Assad's execution ... The United Nations says 2000 civilians have been killed. Authorities blame "armed terrorist ...
today.msnbc.msn.com/.../syrian-forces-kill-more-crowd-calls-...
Syria unrest: Obama urges Assad to step down - Nine News Today ...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (BBC News) – US President Barack Obama has ... The investigators said the UN Security Council should refer the issue to the ...
www.ninenewstoday.com/syria-unrest-obama-urges-assad-to-s...

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