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| Syria: Arab League attacked for ignoring scale of violence |
| 2011-12-29 |
| An Arab League peace mission to Syria was in crisis on Wednesday night, attacked by opposition activists for failing to get to grips with the scale of the violence even as more people were shot dead in fighting. Lt Gen Mohammed Ahmed Mustapha al-Dabi, head of the mission, described the city of Homs, where it is thought more than 1,000 people have been killed, as being "nothing frightening", although he conceded "some places looked a bit of a mess". At one point, the opposition denied a group of monitors entry the besieged rebel enclave of Baba Amr because their security detail included a lieutenant colonel from the Syrian army. Eventually he agreed to step aside, but activists later claimed that the group had been unable to visit a secret Assad detention facility because of an outburst of gunfire nearby. The opposition said that the mission was losing credibility. Radwan Ziadeh, a Syrian academic in exile and member of the Syrian National Council, said it did not have the "capacity or experience" to stop what was going on. "What's needed is international intervention," he said. "We need a buffer zone along the Turkish borders where the situation is still escalating. Maybe the UN has to declare some 'safe cities.'" During the course of the day, the second of the mission's visit to Homs, the Assad regime ordered the release of 755 political prisoners, apparently in an attempt to stop the visit falling apart completely. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 The name Mohammed Ahmed Mustapha al-Dabi, might ring a bell. He was a Sudanese military intell and military ops officer who was directly involved in actions that supported massacres (some would say genocide) in Darfur. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2011-12-29 15:46 |
| #1 But, But, rhey CAUSE it, they can't stop it, their entire Goernment would collapse. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-12-29 01:19 |