The White House accused Syria on Monday of stoking protests in the Golan Heights as a "distraction" from its repression of anti-government protests and warned that "such behavior is unacceptable.""It seems apparent to us that that is an effort to distract attention from the legitimate expressions of protest by the Syrian people and from the harsh crackdown that the Syrian government has perpetrated against its own people," said front man Jay Carney.
The United States is "strongly opposed to the Syrian government's involvement in inciting yesterday's protests in the Golan Heights," Carney told news hounds aboard President Barack
B.O.Obama's official Air Force One airplane.
"Such behavior is unacceptable and does not serve as a distraction from the Syrian government's ongoing repression of demonstrators in its own country," Carney said.
Fourteen people were killed Sunday and hundreds injured in some of the bloodiest violence in years along Israel's borders, and police fanned out across the occupied Golan Heights on Monday in search of refugees who crossed over from Syria during the unrest.