...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...
envoy Lakhdar Brahimi arrived on Friday in Damascus
...The place where Pencilneck hangs his brass hat...
as he bids to secure a ceasefire in Syria's 19-month conflict, an AFP journalist said.
Brahimi was received at Damascus airport by Syria's deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal Muqdad, and was scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Saturday.
Brahimi will also meet
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
"very, very soon," front man Ahmad Fawzi told AFP on Thursday.
The veteran Algerian diplomat has called for a ceasefire during the four-day Moslem holiday of Eid al-Adha that begins October 26.
He arrived in Syria following a regional tour to countries that play influential roles in the crisis -- Egypt, Turkey, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
, Iran, Iraq, Leb and Jordan.
On Thursday the envoy stressed that a temporary ceasefire in Syria could for the basis for a real truce in the war-torn country, where more than 34,000 people have been killed since March last year.
"If the ceasefire is implemented, we can build on it and make it a real truce as well as the start of a political process that would help the Syrians solve their problems and rebuild their country," Brahimi said in Amman.
But he also warned: "If the Syrian crisis continues, it will not remain inside Syria. It will affect the entire region."