...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...
-backed peace plan after Damascus
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
said it had started pulling troops out of certain provinces.
The Syrian claim was "a new expression of a flagrant and unacceptable lie" that "shows a degree of impunity against which the international community absolutely must act," foreign ministry front man Bernard Valero said.
Valero said the issue would be discussed at the U.N. Security Council in New York and by foreign ministers of the Group of Eight (G8) major economies when they meet this week in Washington.
Under the peace plan it agreed with U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo..., the Syrian government is supposed to draw back its troops and armor from population centers on Tuesday ahead of a ceasefire on Thursday.
But activists have said that instead of withdrawing, Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
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Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike...
's regime was sending even more reinforcements into at least one other rebel stronghold, the besieged city of Rastan in central Homs province.
"We have not seen the beginning of a Syrian undertaking to implement the Annan plan," Valero said.
"The Syrian crisis will be raised (during the G8 meeting) while the regime refuses to stick to its undertakings, makes new unacceptable demands, continues to massacre its own population and violates its neighbor's illusory sovereignty."
La Belle France also condemned what it said was deliberate firing by Syrian forces on a refugee camp in Turkey that maimed four Syrians and two Turkish staff and killed a television cameraman over the border with Leb.