Arab League Issues Warning as 27 More Killed in Syria
Early Signs of Reform as Regime Releases 553 Detainees
Violence continued again today in Syria, including reports of a large number of security forces slain in ambushes. Activists reported at least 27 people were killed today, but the exact split between security forces and protesters remains unclear. This deaths bring the toll of the week to over 200.
Arab League Secretary General Nabil el-Arabi issued a warning in response, saying that the situation would become “catastrophic” if both sides didn’t refrain from violence. The Syrian government was given 15 days to implement an Arab League plan to end massive protests in the nation.
And though the violence shows no sign of slowing, the first signs of the regime implementing the reforms are also appearing today, with the state-run media announcing 553 political prisoners were released under the Arab League plan. The plan calls for all political prisoners detained since February released, which activists estimate at 15,000.
The Syrian rebel army leader Col. al-Assad dismissed the moves as an “illusion” and insisted that only a Western backed invasion by his Turkish-based forces could bring down the current regime.
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edgar
November 6th, 2011 at 1:14 am
In my opinion this peace plan is a warmongering tool like the public theater piece called "peace neogtiations" of RAMBOuillet to allegedly "avoid" the so-called "KOSOVO-WAR", actually a war against Yugoslavia. The KLA drug-dealers and terrorists there have been build up, trained and armed to cause police actions, that were portrayed as "killing of Albanians" in order to create reasons of an "humanitarian war". Surely the US-al qaeda fighters are urged to attack in order to deliver the "reasons" for NATO to react on "breaking the ceasefire" of Assad.
That is the way they ever have done it and will do it. Do not let fool you by such articles.
The war against Syria has been planned long ago:
US General Wesley Clark about US government plan to make war with 7 arab countries and Iran withing the next 5 years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-TZxI8m8ss
Even the war against Yugoslavia 1999, Iraq, Afghanistan did belong to this plan of wars:
Clark: We got intelligence information, that there is a time window of ten years for wars against former soviet satellite states without russian intervention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuVVml5Dp2s&feature=p...