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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US preparing to shut down embassy in Damascus
2012-01-22
Remember, these are the smartest people in the room. So no doubt they can tell us why they reopened the Damascus embassy in the first place.
The United States is preparing to shut down its embassy in Damascus
...Home to a staggering array of terrorist organizations...
and evacuate all American personnel from Syria by the end of the month amid a rapidly deteriorating security situation in the country, The Washington Post quoted senior B.O. regime officials as saying on Friday.

According to the report, a US official said that Washington has "no choice" but to close down the Damascus embassy unless Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
agrees to provide enhanced protection.

"The security situation across Syria, which is deteriorating with each day that Assad clings to power, demonstrates further that Assad is losing control of the country and reinforces our point that Assad has lost all legitimacy," the official was quoted as saying.
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