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Deadline passes with no sign of Syria violence abating
 [Al Ahram] 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... deadline for Syria came and went with Bashar defiantly continuing the brutal crackdown against opposition, but some point to signs that his end is inevitable "The conflict will continue and the pressure to subjugate Syria will continue," Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad told Britannia's Sunday Times newspaper. "Syria will not bow down." The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 14 people were killed on Saturday by government security forces. On Friday dozens were reported killed in festivities. The Arab League had on Wednesday set a Saturday deadline for Syria to comply with a peace plan which would entail a military pullout from around restive areas, and threatened sanctions if Assad failed to end the violence. The League, a group of Arab states, suspended Syria's membership in a surprise move last week. Non-Arab Turkey, once an ally of Assad's, is also taking an increasingly tough attitude to Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... . Turkish newspapers said on Saturday Ankara had contingency plans to create no-fly or buffer zones to protect civilians in neighbouring Syria if the bloodshed worsens. "It's almost certain that Bashir al-Assad's regime is going down, all the assessments are made based on this assumption. Foreign Ministry sources say that the sooner the regime goes down, the better for Turkey," one paper said. "It is out of the question that Turkey carries out a military intervention to change the regime. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... it takes a flexible stance on opposition groups running activities in Turkey." Posted by: Fred 2011-11-21 |
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