Early last week the Syrian government agreed to an Arab League plan that would have them removing all troops and tanks from cities and releasing thousands of political prisoners detained for participating in pro-democracy rallies.
Today, the Arab League is calling an “emergency meeting” on Syria, as the crackdown in the nation has continued and even escalated, with over 200 slain just since the regime agreed to the Arab League’s plan.
The violence continued again today, as protesters took to the streets along with many others to celebrate the festival Eid al-Adha, and troops killed at least 16 of the celebrants. After Eid prayers many of the worshipers launched new protests against Assad.
And while the regime did show signs of “reform” yesterday in releasing over 500 of its political prisoners, it is a drop in the bucket when estimates have the post-February arrests at over 15,000, and the violence suggests the 15 day deadline the Arab League gave Assad to implement the entire plan is going to slip with very little accomplished.
and yet a million iraqis still feel safer in syria with out any civil protection than they would in iraq…
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/page?page=…
In the article link, the Qataris are very engaged in the arab league against Syria. Isn't this strange, that the Qatari dictator did recently kill their own people and even calling for military help from the Saudis – but now they fight for democracy in Syria? Really?
come on – this is the same media fraud they used in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia etc. for NATOs "humanitarian wars". The protestors are armed, the US did sent Al Qaeda fighters – as in Libya. In Libya Qataris even had tanks in Benghasi to shot against uprising prople and the army of the rebel killed former rebel-commander general Younis. Also in the seaside attack of Tripolis the Quataris played a major role.
They are proxis of the USA:
BTW: Where are the news reports of the many killed police men and civilians from THEM?
Why never (!) the many and extremely huge pro-Assad-demonstrations are never shown in western and THEIR Arab dictatorship media?
Isn't this a very common war mongering article like in most mainstream media? The only source of information is the side of armed terrorists financed and guided with hate news by Arab dictatorship media: Al Jazeera and Al Arabia – copied by Western media to spread the hate for war mongering. The information of the opposite side is regularly ignored and censored.
And the Qatari dictator recently needed to call Saudi military to kill its own people has suddenly the loudest voice for SYRIAN democracy? Very strange. But it becomes more common here on anti (?) war.
Antiwar continues to beat the war drums on Syria…
After yesterday’s headline of a “massacre” of civilians antiwar is now reporting that “troops killed at least 16 celebrants” at a festival…
And the link is to a report by by Deutche Presse-Agentur…placelined CAIRO…
So antiwar’s news service consists of repeating the discredited mainstream media’s so-called reporting…which itself consists of having a “reporter” in Cairo…hundreds of miles from the scene…who is on the phone and email with so-called Syrian opposition…which tell him how the big bad Syrian government troops are going around killing peaceful protesters and celebrants at a festival…and who makes no effort to balance this information with with the government’s side of the story…or to independently verify the so-called facts…
This is what you call a complete farce…This scenario completely nonsensical on its face…why would any government, especially one that is under imminent threat from the world’s most deadly and aggressive military juggernaut, for alleged heavy-handedness against its own people, resort to deadly force against unarmed protesters…?
Any person with half a brain knows this does not add up…and it is the exact same lie technique that we have seen over and over to justify Nato intervention…We saw it on Serbia…we just saw it again on Libya…and now we are seeing it on Syria…
Thanks for the supposed “debunking” of the mainstream media lies antiwar…Just today Raimondo is sounding off about how antiwar performs a valuable service debunking propaganda…Is this an example…?