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Syrian brownshirts storm Saudi embassy
[Iran Press TV] Syrian protesters have stormed the Saudi and Qatari embassies 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... to voice their outrage at an Arab League ...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... 's decision to suspend Syria's membership in the Pan-Arab body. The incident occurred late on Saturday when thousands of people poured into the streets of Damascus to stage protest rallies in front of the Qatari, Saudi, Turkish and US embassies. Demonstrations were also held in Syria's major cities of Aleppo ...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... , Raqqa, Lattakia, Tartous, Hasaka and Sweida. In Damascus, some protesters broke into the Saudi embassy while some accessed the rooftop of the Qatari embassy building and raised the Syrian national flag. Others pelted the Qatari facility with tomatoes and eggs to protest against Doha for heading the vaporous Arab League emergency session, where the suspension was announced earlier in the day. Chanting slogans in support of Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Sonny, disguised as Fredo, trying to be Mike... , the protesters then gathered in front of the Turkish and US embassies, condemning the Arab bloc for acting out a plot they said had been hatched by the United States. A similar protest was held against the Saudi-based Al-Arabiya and the Doha-based Al-Jazeera news channels in the Jordanian capital, Amman. The angry protesters tried to break into the buildings of news channels, which they blamed for following a US and Israeli agenda against Syria. The Arab League voted "to suspend Syrian delegations' activities in its meetings" until the peace plan proposed by the body is implemented by the Syrian government. It also urged Arab countries to recall their ambassadors from Damascus and called for the imposition of economic and political sanctions on Syria. The announcement of Syria's membership suspension came during an emergency meeting at the League's headquarters in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Syria has been experiencing a deadly unrest since mid-March and according to the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... , over 3,500 people have been killed in the violence. Hundreds of Syrian security forces are among the dead. While the Syrian opposition accuses the security forces of cracking down on what it calls anti-government protesters, Damascus blames the violence on outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups sponsored by foreign countries. Posted by: Fred 2011-11-13 |
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