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Payments with Visa Cards Stop in Syria as Sanctions Bite
 [An Nahar] Visa credit cards issued in Syria, by Syrian banks or those with branches in the country, have stopped working from Wednesday, bank officials and users told Agence La Belle France Presse."Clients were sent SMS messages Tuesday evening informing them they could no longer use their Visa cards in Syria, or even abroad if it was issued in Syria," said Wissam Abu Ghazala, director of a branch of Leb's Byblos in Damascus. ...The City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... Ali Ismail, manager of the import-export company Medsea, linked the move to U.S. and other Western sanctions imposed on the Syrian regime over its deadly crackdown of anti-government dissent. "This is what the Americans call smart sanctions targeting bigwigs of the (Syrian) regime. Which means that either we are all bigwigs or it's just a way of punishing all the Syrian people," he said. U.S. President Barack B.O.Obama and his Western allies for the first time Thursday called on President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... to resign and boosted sanctions against his regime after five months of a brutal repression of protests. Posted by: Fred 2011-08-26 |
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