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| U.S. Treasury Bans Telecom Sales to Syria |
| 2011-10-04 |
| [An Nahar] The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday moved to block the sale of telecommunications equipment to Syria, the latest in a series of sanctions aimed at isolating Bashir al-Assad's regime. According to a Treasury document signed on Monday, U.S. firms will now be barred from selling the Syrian government, or anyone in the country, telecoms equipment or technology, "including satellite or terrestrial network connectivity." Washington has slapped sanctions on a series of top Syrian government officials amid a deadly crackdown on protestors across the country. On August 17 President Barack B.O.Obama signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against the Syrian regime because of what the White House termed a "continuing escalation of violence against the people of Syria." The sanctions froze all Syrian government property in the United States and banned U.S. citizens from doing new business with the country, or importing petroleum products. Speaking in Tel Aviv on Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... said it was "a matter of time" before the Syrian regime headed al-Assad is ousted from power by the uprising. According to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , the crackdown has killed at least 2,700 people. Throughout the crackdown, Syrian state-backed television channels have broadcast pro-government accounts of events in the country. Syrian news networks have also been used to broadcast messages from Libya's Moammar Qadaffy ...a reminder that a single man with an idea can screw up an entire nation... and the remnants of his regime. The order was signed by Adam Szubin, director of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Yeah, that'll stop them. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-10-04 01:03 |
| #1 Isn't Syria designated a terrorist state? Why are we selling them this type of stuff in the first place? |
| Posted by: Mikey Hunt 2011-10-04 00:53 |