The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
was to formally adopt an embargo on Syrian oil, but the sanctions would not take effect until November 15 for existing contracts after Italia insisted on a delay, according to diplomats in Brussels.
They told AFP that the EU would also expand its list of people targeted by an assets freeze and travel ban.
The announcement of the oil embargo coincides with a key meeting of EU foreign ministers Friday in Poland.
The measure will deprive President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad's
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
regime of a vital source of cash, as the EU buys 95 per cent of Syria's crude oil.
In Gay Paree, US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Charles Evans Hughes...
said the world community should escalate pressure by targeting Syria's oil and gas exports to force him from office.
"The violence must stop and he needs to step aside," Clinton told news hounds in Gay Paree after a meeting Thursday on Libya, where strongman Mummar Qadaffy
...Megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie
bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland...
has already been forced from office.