Arab League Mission to Syria Suspended
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Arab League said on Saturday it was suspending its observer mission monitoring the deadly regime crackdown on dissent in Syria because of the upsurge in violence, a League official said.
"The decision to suspend the Arab League mission in Syria has been taken because of the upsurge in violence, and an official announcement will be made later," the official told Agene France Presse on condition of anonymity.
The head of the League monitoring mission said on Friday that unrest had soared this week "in a significant way," especially in the flashpoint central cities of Homs and Hama and in the northern Idlib region.
The violence "does not help ... to get all sides to sit at the negotiating table," General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi said in a statement.
At least 193 people -- mostly civilians -- have been killed in Syrian violence nationwide since Tuesday, according to figures compiled by AFP from information provided by official sources and rights activists.
The 165 League observers were deployed on December 26 after Syria agreed to a League plan foreseeing a halt to the violence, prisoners freed, tanks withdrawn from built-up areas and free movement of observers and foreign media.
None of the clauses in the protocol was respected.
28 January 2012, 16:17
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the conflict in syria is increasingly militarized.the issue is clear even for the most fanatics....
28 January 2012, 16:37
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Piece by piece, the Arab micro-League is being kicked out of Syria and stripped of its cards while their Sunni crazies inside Syria are being cornered and terminated like flies. What's left? The UN and Walid Jumblat? Who knows? For answers, we must ask the clairvoyants Gabby, thepatriot, peace, aragon, realist, allouchi, shab and of course the mentor of all of them, Dr. Samir al Tochi. But please don't bother TITUS with this because his focus in exclusively on the international scene (China, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, etc.).
28 January 2012, 16:56
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You mean banned from the Useless League of Jarrab Sunni States. If only Lebanon was not to been seen at this joke of the Jarrab Sunni League. Syria should be proud. Wish I was Syrian today.
28 January 2012, 18:19
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cookie: "Syria agreed to a League plan foreseeing a halt to the violence, prisoners freed, tanks withdrawn from built-up areas and free movement of observers and foreign media."
did they do what they agreed on? NO, so if one party fails to implement a contract then the other party has the right to denounce it...
think a little and criticize your syrians friends for not keeping their promises as usual...
28 January 2012, 18:41
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Hey cookie boy.....get ready to end your spamming of Nahar. The end game is just about ready to start. You will go into underground hiding like the black turban freak. Your boy Assad is going to fall soon.
The rules will change over the two weeks. Get ready.
28 January 2012, 20:19
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cookie are you dumb or you do it on purpose? look what i quoted! did they withdraw the tanks ? no. did they stop the killings? no! did they allow foreign media to FREELY do their job? no! were the observers free of their movements? no!
read correctly next time not just what you d like to read!
and sorry when we see you ALWAYS defending the bashar regime, we can only think that he is your friend....
28 January 2012, 20:25
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Now this is the end of the game according to Gabby, aragon, thepatriot, peace, akkouchi, shab and the other clairvoyants on Naharnet and other fortune-telling industry publications. As to whose end game it is, the masters mentioned above seem to...uh...umm...ouf...duh...blah... NOT KNOW.
28 January 2012, 20:29
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Cookie is right, the League is leaving because it doesn't want to see the NATO insurgents at work. It wants to pretend this is 1948 and it can look the other way.
28 January 2012, 20:33
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Folks like Cookie_Monster are still living in an era that is fast fading away before our eyes. For the life of me I can not understand their logic (being generous calling it logic). Yes, there may be a Moslim Brotherhood involvement but don't the large numbers of other protesters, including Syrian thinkers and secularists, demonstrate this uprising saw birth at the grass roots level?
That said, there is also no denying that the Moslims of the Middle East need some kind of reconciliation between Sunni and Shia before it gets out of hand. If it does explode, it will benefit neithr of them to the advantage of foreign super powers. Reconsider before it is too late.
29 January 2012, 05:00
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Even though I disagree with Cookie-Monster in opinion and analysis of events, I give cookie credit for refraining from using foul language and personal attacks. The real devil could be in bearded and smelly guys as well as in well groomed charming guys. The real devil is within us (Lebanese) when we tear each other up mercilessly, when we resort to outside powers to fight each other, we we worship corrupt political figures, when we side against some all the time because we are against them and when we side with others all the time because we are on their side. Even those we disagree with at times could be right, and these we do agree with couldd at times be wrong. Peace to all - Kolonna lelwatan.
