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Qatar: Arab monitors made mistakes in Syria
[CBS News]  Qatar's prime minister said Wednesday the 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... observer mission in Syria has made "some mistakes" and he was turning to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... for help. Qatari Prime Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassem Al Thani discussed the monthlong mission with U.N. Secretary General  the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... in New York amid mounting criticism that the observers are simply giving the Syrian regime cover for its ongoing crackdown on a nearly 10-month-old uprising. "We are coming here for technical help and to see the experience the U.N. has, because this is the first time the vaporous Arab League is involved in sending monitors, and there are some mistakes," he said, according to Kuwait's state news agency. Asked what kind of mistakes, he replied: "This is the first experience for us. I said we have to evaluate what sorts of mistakes we have (made). There is no doubt for me. I can see there are mistakes, but we went there not to stop the killing, but to monitor." Posted by: Fred 2012-01-06 |
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