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International Syria envoy says he hopes holiday truce will take hold |
2012-10-24 |
An international mediator told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that he hopes a four-day holiday truce can take hold in Syria this week, warning that another failure will worsen the fighting and increasingly threaten neighboring countries. Yet even this modest effort — the international community's only plan for scaling back the violence — appears doomed to fail. Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N.-Arab League envoy, said the Syrian regime and some rebel groups promised to lay down their arms during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, which begins Friday. However, President Bashar Assad's regime denied Wednesday that it had committed to the plan and a radical Islamist group fighting alongside the rebels said it won't comply. Other rebels dismissed the idea as irrelevant. |
Posted by:tipper |
#1 Ah, Eid. Yeah, they never kill each other during Eid. It's "unIslamic" or...sumthin. |
Posted by: tu3031 2012-10-24 19:07 |