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Syria State Media Lashes Out at Arab League
2011-10-20
[An Nahar] An official Syrian daily lashed out at the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
Wednesday, accusing it of serving the interests of the United States and Israel after the organization urged Damascus
...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
to open up to dialogue.

"It is no longer surprising to see the vaporous Arab League, which is supposed to be concerned with joint Arab action, turn into an instrument of injustice aimed at destabilizing Syria," said the daily Ath-Thawra.

The daily said the 22-member Arab League was "hostage to powers following the agenda of aggressors like the United States, Israel and their European allies."

At an urgent session in Cairo on October 16, the Arab League called for "national dialogue" between Syria's government and the opposition in the Egyptian capital by the end of the month.

Syria's representative to the Arab League Youssef Ahmad slammed what he said was a "conspiracy" against the regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Trampler of Homs...
at the Cairo meeting on Sunday.

Protests against the Assad-controlled Baath Party, which has ruled Syria unchallenged for close to 50 years, erupted in March and have shown no signs of dying down despite a rising corpse count.

The United Nations
...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas...
on Friday said more than 3,000 people, including 187 children, have been killed in a fierce crackdown on the dissent.

Posted by:Fred

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