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Syria Slams 'Biased' U.N. Report
[An Nahar] Syria has slammed as "biased" a United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
report that called the conflict in the country overtly sectarian, state media said on Friday.

The foreign ministry accused the U.N. of a "lack of professionalism" in producing its report, and said that any sectarian dimensions to the conflict were because of foreign support for "gangs," state news agency SANA said.

The U.N.'s Commission of Inquiry on Syria, established in August 2011, has yet to gain access to the country, despite the foreign ministry stressing a "willingness" to work with the outside Sherlocks.

"Unfortunately, the Commission missed all these opportunities (for mutual cooperation)," the ministry said in a statement.

In response to a U.N. finding that "entire communities" were at risk from the civil war, the ministry pointed to the historic coexistence of Syria's various ethnicities and religions, saying the regime was battling "terrorist groups financed from abroad."

It expressed shock that "the Commission does not seek to investigate fatwas (decrees) issued by foreign bad turbans" calling for the targeting of various communities in Syria.

Officials in Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
's regime and state media have long categorized activists and armed snuffies alike as enemies or "terrorists" funded by Gulf rivals Qatar and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face...
, former ally Turkey and the West.

The U.N. report did warn, however, that increasingly strong Islamist armed opposition groups were operating independently of the main rebel force, the Free Syrian Army.

Posted by: Fred 2013-01-05
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