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2011-06-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Syria

#1 This will be where the focus is as Turkey is getting restless with all these Syrians streaming over that 400 miles of border. And Syrian forces advance.

Posted by newc 2011-06-20 01:56|| 2011-06-20 01:56|| Front Page Top

#2 What is it about the medical schools in the ME that lead to guys like this going from medicine to mayhem.

With that in mind I certainly shutter at what a trauma center looks like in Cairo.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2011-06-20 09:46|| 2011-06-20 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Afterward, some citizens took to the street in protest, according to the Jerusalem Post:

Demonstrators in Damascus chant "No to dialogue with murderers," after Syrian president says country being exploited by "saboteurs, microbes" in 3rd address since uprising began.

"People were still hoping he would say something meaningful that would result in tanks and troops leaving the streets. They were disappointed and started going out as soon as Assad finished talking," one activist in Latakia said.

In the city of Hama, scene of a 1982 attack to crush an uprising led by the Muslim Brotherhood that killed thousands of civilians during the rule of Assad's father, Hafez Assad, protesters chanted "damn your soul, Hafez."

Demonstrations also took place in the eastern city of Albu Kamal on the border with Iraq, the southern city of Deraa and other towns in the Hauran Plain, cradle of the uprising, now in its fourth month, and at the campus of Aleppo University, activists said.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-06-20 11:50|| 2011-06-20 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 And according to Ha'aretz, there are 10,000 Syrian refugees already in camps in Turkey, with another 10,000 waiting on the Syrian side of the border.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-06-20 12:53|| 2011-06-20 12:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Unless you're a photographer bill, you probably meant to say you would "...shudder to...".

Posted by Skidmark 2011-06-20 22:56|| 2011-06-20 22:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Wait! It is Monday. What did he say?

Posted by Skidmark 2011-06-20 22:57|| 2011-06-20 22:57|| Front Page Top

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