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On 2/8/12, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
> U.S. Embassy in Syria Closes as Violence Flares
>
> BEIRUT, Lebanon — The United States closed its embassy in Syria on
> Monday and withdrew its staff in the face of escalating mayhem for
> which American officials blamed the Syrian government's unbridled
> repression of an 11-month-old uprising.
> A member of the Free Syrian Army stood guard over a demonstration by
> opponents of President Bashar al-Assad's government in Idlib on
> Monday.
>
> The move was another dramatic moment in a week full of them, as the
> confrontation in Syria turned even more violent and more
> unpredictable. Diplomatic efforts have largely collapsed, save for a
> Russian delegation visiting Damascus on Tuesday, and both the Syrian
> government and its opposition have signaled that each believes that
> the grinding conflict will be resolved only through force of arms.
>
> For weeks, Western embassies have reduced their staffs, and on Monday
> Britain also recalled its ambassador for consultations. Echoing a
> cascade of diplomatic invective, the British foreign secretary,
> William Hague, described the mounting violence as yet more evidence
> that President Bashar al-Assad must surrender power.
>
> "This is a doomed regime as well as a murdering regime," he told the
> House of Commons. "There is no way it can recover its credibility
> internationally."
>
> Though the government has pressed forward with a crackdown in the
> suburbs of the capital, Damascus, and in a rugged northern region
> around the town of Idlib, the city of Homs has witnessed the most
> pronounced violence. Opposition groups said government forces again
> shelled the city, despite international condemnations of a similar
> attack on Friday and Saturday that they said killed more than 200
> people.
>
> Another grim toll was reported Monday in the city, Syria's third
> largest. The Local Coordination Committees, an opposition group that
> seeks to document the violence, said government forces killed 47
> people in the hardest-hit neighborhoods, especially Baba Amr and
> Khalidya. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights put the
> number at 43. There was no way to independently confirm either number.
>
> "The situation is so miserable," said a 40-year-old man who gave his
> name as Ahmed. "Gunfire is falling like rain, and all the stores are
> closed. We keep hearing unbelievably loud explosions that shake the
> windows every half-hour."
>
> Explosions could be heard over the phone when speaking with residents
> in Homs. Videos smuggled out showed a chaotic scene at a clinic, as
> people rushed past doctors and staff members, shouting "Oh God!" In
> one video, said to document the scene, blood smeared the sidewalk.
> Another showed bloodied corpses.
>
> The government has flatly denied the tolls quoted by opposition
> groups. On Saturday, it said Homs was quiet. State-run news media
> placed blame for the violence Monday on "armed terrorist groups"
> firing mortars within Homs. In a statement, the Interior Ministry said
> that it was seeking "to restore security and stability to Homs," and
> that six members of the security forces and "scores of terrorists" had
> been killed.
>
> Clearly laying the blame on Syria's president, the State Department
> said in a statement that the United States had "suspended operations
> of our embassy in Damascus," and that Ambassador Robert S. Ford and
> all American personnel had left the country. It said the closing
> reflected "serious concerns that our embassy is not protected from
> armed attack."
>
> "The deteriorating security situation that led to the suspension of
> our diplomatic operations makes clear once more the dangerous path
> Assad has chosen and the regime's inability to fully control Syria,"
> said a spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland. American officials said the
> embassy staff had relocated temporarily to neighboring Jordan.
>
> The announcement said Ambassador Ford would "continue his work and
> engagement with the Syrian people as head of our Syria team in
> Washington."
>
> It stopped short of a formal break in diplomatic relations with Syria,
> but was considered a strong signal that Obama administration officials
> believe there is nothing left to talk about with Mr. Assad. Though
> more isolated than at any time in the four decades since Mr. Assad's
> family took power, the government was emboldened by the vetoes of
> Russia and China on Saturday of a United Nations Security Council
> resolution backed by Western and Arab states supporting a plan to end
> the bloodshed. The vetoes appeared to end, for the moment, any
> concerted diplomatic efforts.
>
> Instead, countries traded barbs. Mr. Hague called the vetoes "a
> betrayal of the Syrian people." Russia's foreign minister, Sergey V.
> Lavrov, was scornful of the criticism, saying it was "perhaps on the
> verge of hysterical." In China, a commentary in the Communist Party
> newspaper People's Daily argued that the chaos that followed the
> toppling of governments in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya proved that
> forced leadership changes only made matters worse. "Simply backing one
> side and beating down the other, seemingly helpful, will in fact only
> sow seeds of future disasters," said the article, signed Zhong Sheng,
> an often-used pseudonym that can be read to mean "China's voice."
>
> More:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/world/middleeast/violence-in-syria-continues-after-diplomacy-fails.html?ref=middleeast
>
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> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
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> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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