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    Syria given until Sunday to accept Arab plan

    BEIRUT (AP) — The Arab League has given Syria until Sunday to respond to its proposal to send observers to the country as part of a plan to end the political violence there.

    Qatar's prime minister warned at an Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Doha Saturday that failure to reach an agreement may lead to U.N. involvement in the Syrian crisis.

    The 22-member organization agreed Saturday on the details of economic and diplomatic sanctions against the Syrian regime. They include a list of 19 Syrian officials subject to a travel ban.

    The punitive action is meant to pressure the Syrian regime to stop its crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising in which more than 4,000 people have been killed.

    Syria has failed to meet several Arab League deadlines on the bloc's peace proposal.

     

    17 comments

    • Hasan  •  Damascus, Syria  •  5 mths ago
      Wise people never understimate what other people can. This is the problem of assad and his regime and even his supporters; they always pay no heed to people's warnings, and then in the last minute he will be ready to do anything to back down, but it is too late. bashar assad is history and his regime is a dinosaur; they don't belong to urban civilzed life.
      • Hasan 5 mths ago
        We have been saying this for nine months. Lies have short legs, though Bashar legs are long!!!!! Ironic, isn't it????? Criminals can hide for sometime, but eventually they will come out of their hiding, and bashar the butcher has come out since the start of our blessed revolution, and he will soon meet his nemisis. No sane person can support him for ever because they are human beings who cannot stand the bloodshedding committed by bashar assad and still support him, Soon all army and police will have their say and go against bashar the butcher.
    • Joker  •  5 mths ago
      I know many of you thought something would be accomplished by that bunch of idiots and misfits you placed in Congress and Governorships in 2010. You can see how badly you wasted your good vote. The Republishitcans and the vaunted T gaggers have given you NOTHING, just like they promised you they would. Talk about less Government. This simply drives home the fact that the party of NO needs NO VOTES. Blame your neighborhood repuke republichristians. Let them know you do not approve of the choices they have made for America. It is true that Texas is one of the only states where the number of people working has increased during the recession. What has not been acknowledged is that immigrants have been the primary beneficiaries of this job growth, not native-born Americans. The Center for Immigration Studies reported. “About 40 percent job growth went to newly arrived illegal immigrants and another 40 percent to new legal immigrants."
      • Allank 5 mths ago
        yes, but they are all worth more than Assad ! lol
      • Den 5 mths ago
        Post some new thoughts, will you?
    • Mladen  •  Helsinki, Finland  •  5 mths ago
      Regime opponents (and particularly insurgents) feel afraid and beaten-down. They need foreign cheerleaders ASAP or all is lost... As for president Assad: present your plan for democratization to UN and to Arab blogosphere. You don't own anything to crowned-heads, show everybody who is autocrat and hypocrite to boot. Let's see what happens when their people start asking for more democracy.
      • Allank 5 mths ago
        yawn, is that you Ibrahim ? How did that work out as PR guy for Gadhaffi ?
      • Mladen 5 mths ago
        Bad, Moussa... BTW, where your wife change clothes from burqa after landing on Paris airport?
    • free  •  Bellevue, United States  •  5 mths ago
      What would Nadda say to do.
      • Den 5 mths ago
        ???
    • ray k  •  Smyrna, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Arab league???? What the hell is that......... This is a cheap tools in the hands of few stupid bedwins who are uncivilized but have money from the oil. a cheap pasterd arabs whom got paid to stand behind qatar and sudia ariba agsinst the civilized syria.......... This arabs jarabs league had never ever since established been effective......... It is just a frame for a picture
    • Juvi  •  Fayetteville, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Idle threats. The Arab League is a joke, They should have handled Saddam in '91
    • Hasan  •  Damascus, Syria  •  5 mths ago
      We have been saying this for nine months. Lies have short legs, though Bashar legs are long!!!!! Ironic, isn't it????? Criminals can hide for sometime, but eventually they will come out of their hiding, and bashar the butcher has come out since the start of our blessed revolution, and he will soon meet his nemisis. No sane person can support him for ever because they are human beings who cannot stand the bloodshedding committed by bashar assad and still support him, Soon all army and police will have their say and go against bashar the butcher.
    • Den  •  5 mths ago
      And they will most likely miss this deadline as well-
    • N. PA  •  Clarks Summit, United States  •  5 mths ago
      The Arab Credo: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
      • Den 5 mths ago
        It's been said by US Generals as well-
    • glen  •  Jacksonville, United States  •  5 mths ago
      how many times are you going to make this offer before you do something about it?
    • deadkenny  •  5 mths ago
      So they have until Sunday to start behaving ? What then....double secret probation for the Assad family ? Russia and China will never go along with anything meaningful from the Security Council , which pretty much negates the UN angle ......of course the main mission of the UN has always been as a sort of debating society and a way for countries in Asia , Africa , and South America to give politically connected insiders a nice place to hang out and go out to eat. Beyond that , just another rat hole for us to throw our tax dollars into.
    • Cactus Dan  •  Boston, United States  •  5 mths ago
      Don't be surprised when Syria strikes back at outsiders with a dirty bomb. Desperate men create desperate acts.
    • BeamerUSA  •  5 mths ago
      after that Ka-BOOOOM. Assad no more...
    • George  •  5 mths ago
      Assad = Ghaddafi = DEAD PIG

      ❤DRONES❤
    • Peter  •  5 mths ago
      The US, Israel, Britain and Saudi Arabia have long been arming and funding various terrorist groups to sow chaos in Iran, Syria, Lebanon in order to destabilize Ahmadinejad’s regime before attacking Iran. These terrorist groups include MEK, Jundullah and PJAK. Former CIA official, Robert Baer, has documented some of terrorist activities against the Islamic Republic in a documentary entitled ‘Vanguard: America’s secret war with Iran‘.
    • Adam Gahool  •  5 mths ago
      AL like their controled zionist masters USA, UK and israel, do not underestand the meaning of Phauque Off. They come up with Ultimatums, time and time again. Syria was suspended, why should thay give a sheet? The world citizens know how sick and stupid your leaders are, do they realy think that they have a chance of survival? World citizens are in a very smart march, on cleaning the world off these human wastes, who have occupied the leadership positions.
    • A Yahoo! User  •  5 mths ago
      And then it is a free for all , Beware Bashar it will be a different ball game. Watch this space
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