KnobbyBerri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
on Sunday declared that only
King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands #65;bdullah... Fifth out of 37 sons of King Abdulaziz to ascend to the throne. He is, after his half-brothers Bandar and Musa'id, the third eldest of the living sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. Abdullah's mother is from the Rashid clan, longtime rivals of the Saud. He has 6 sons and 15 daughters and about $20 billion. His youngest son is just seven years old...
bin Abdul Aziz was capable of pressing for a reconciliation between the Syrian regime and its opponents.
"After all that has happened, and given what is happening now, I do not see anyone but you -- other than God -- capable of pushing for a reconciliation, not only among the Syrians, but also among the Arabs," Berri said in a briefly-worded cable he sent to the Saudi monarch.
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...
's foreign ministers at a meeting in Cairo on Saturday voted 18-22 to suspend Syria with effect from November 16 over its failure to comply with an agreement to end its crackdown on protests, which according to the United Nations
...Parkinson's Law on an international scale...
have left at 3,500 people dead since mid-March.
Syria, Yemen and Leb voted against the measure while Iraq abstained.
The foreign ministers recommended the withdrawal of Arab envoys from Damascus
...The
City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
and agreed on sanctions, while inviting "all currents in the Syrian opposition" to meet at its Cairo headquarters in Cairo to map out a transition.
It said the suspension would remain in place until
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
implements the November 2 accord which his government signed, in which Damascus was to release detainees, withdraw the army from urban areas, allow free movement for observers and media, and negotiate with the opposition.
The Arab League resolution won widespread praise from the international community, with U.N. chief
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
praising the "strong and courageous" call, while the opposition Syrian National Council said the decision was a "step in the right direction."
In a surprise announcement seen as an attempt to head off the suspension, Syrian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said on Sunday Damascus had called for an urgent summit of the vaporous Arab League "to address the crisis and its negative consequences in the Arab world."
The report came even as Arab League head Nabil al-Arabi was announcing that the pan-Arab group would be "studying mechanisms it could implement to protect civilians in Syria."
Arabi hailed the League's decision to suspend Syria as "historic," and said it had called for the "international protection" of civilians in the country as it did not have the means to act alone.
The League's decision prompted an outpouring of anger among Assad's supporters who surged in their tens of thousands into central Damascus on Sunday to show their support for the president.
"The Syrian people are filling the squares of the nation and announce their rejection of the Arab League decision," state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said, showing more protests in the commercial hub of Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
and other cities.
Late Saturday, hundreds of angry demonstrators had attacked the embassies of Qatar and Soddy Arabia, which were among the countries that voted to suspend Syria.