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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian activists say regime fires on funeral
2012-05-16
[Emirates 24/7] Syrian activists say regime forces fired on a funeral procession in the presence of U.N. observers, causing many casualties.

The activists said the observers were not among the maimed Tuesday, but their vehicles were damaged.

A U.N. front man confirmed the observers were caught up in the country's violence on Tuesday and their cars sustained damage. But Ahmad Fawzi, a front man for special 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...
had no other details.

An Idlib-based activist, Fadi al-Yassin, said he witnessed the attack on the funeral and saw that the observers were there.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing a network of sources on the ground, also reported the attack.
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