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Syria activists urge intervention as Annan briefs powers
[Dawn] Activists called for rallies across Syria on Friday to demand "immediate military intervention" as UN-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...
envoy Kofi Annan
...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo...
prepared to brief the divided UN Security Council on his peace efforts.

Gulf Arab states announced they were following Riyadh's lead in closing their Damascus
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
embassies in protest at the violence, which monitors said Thursday on the first anniversary of its outbreak has cost more than 9,100 lives.

Activists called on their Facebook page, Syrian Revolution 2011, for nationwide protests after weekly Moslem prayers to demand "immediate military intervention by the Arabs and Moslems, followed by the rest of the world."Huge rallies in support of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
were held in Damascus and other major cities on Thursday to mark the anniversary.

But numbers have fallen at anti-regime demonstrations as security forces seize protest centres such as Idlib in northwest Syria after heavy shelling and bloody assaults.

With the opposition divided, Western countries have been opposed to military intervention although Qatar and Soddy Arabia, Assad's fiercest critics in the Arab world, have come out in favour of arming the rebels.

Posted by: Fred 2012-03-17
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=341118