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United States urged U.S.
citizens Friday to depart Syria
"immediately, " and noted
that the Damascus
government has placed
"severe " constraints on the
travel of U.S. diplomats in
the country.
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WTF? RT @AlArabiya_Eng: BREAKING: Saudi King Abdullah will address Syria in a ‘historical’ speech shortly #Syria #Assad #Hama #Saudi

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RT @AlArabiya_Eng: King Abdullah: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not accept what is happening in Syria

RT @AlArabiya_Eng: BREAKING: Saudi Arabia summons its ambassadors in Syrian for consultation

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http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/20....

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"The Kingdom today stands up to its historical responsibilities towards its brothers," King Abdullah said in a speech statement obtained by Al Arabiya TV.

“The repercussions of the events in Syria are not part of the religion, nor values, nor ethics,” King Abdullah added.

“The Syrian government knows Saudi Arabia’s past positions towards it,” the King added, calling for implementing immediate comprehensive reforms.

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The Arab silence over the bloodshed in Syria was further broken on Sunday when Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby issued a statement expressing “growing concern and strong distress over the deteriorating security conditions in Syria due to escalating violence and military operations in Hama and Deir Ezzor and other areas of Syria.”

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Things may be snowballing diplomatically here: via AlArabiya: Kuwait mps call for pulling out GCC envoys from Syria

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Anonymous has taken over the Syrian Ministry of Defence's website.

http://mod.gov.sy/

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@cnnbrk: Sources: U.S. close to calling for Syrian President al-Assad to resign amid brutal crackdown http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/09/sou....
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad responded to growing criticism about his deadly five-month crackdown on dissidents by admitting “some mistakes” were made by his security forces in the “initial stages” of unrest.

Diplomats representing Brazil, India and South Africa -- a bloc in the United Nations Security Council reluctant to punish Assad -- said in an e-mailed statement that they met in Damascus with the Syrian leader, who told them “efforts were under way to prevent” the mistakes from recurring.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-10....
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RT @AJEnglish: Syrian 'warships shell port city of Latakia' |
At least 21 people said to be killed as northern city is ... http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middle.... #Syria

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RT @BreakingNews: U.S. State Department says it's unable to confirm published reports that Syrian navy has shelled port city of Latakia - Reuters

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In light of the comments made yesterday by the Turkey's FM, this is rather interesting . . .

15:00
UN says withdraws non-essential staff from Syria (Reuters)

http://www.haaretz.com/misc/breaking-new....
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Galrahn over at Information Dissemination picking up on this story as well -

Galrahn Raymond Pritchett
So is the UN staff withdrawal from Syria a response to the warnings by the Turkish FM? Is Turkey signaling military action?
13 minutes ago

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I think anyone who still associates themselves with the Syrian government ought to face some sort of Nuremburg tribunal. If the US military were to make half as many "mistakes" as Bashar al-Assad's military has made in the past few months then Obama himself would've been impeached and removed a long time ago.

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Even though this is from WND, it does correspond with Turkey's FM warning yesterday and the withdraw of UN staff from Syria


Brace for another U.S.-Mideast war
First Libya, now sources say next country warned of NATO attack

Posted: August 15, 2011
8:31 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2011 WND

JERUSALEM – Turkey secretly passed a message to Damascus last week that if it does not implement major democratic reforms, NATO may attack Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, according to Egyptian security officials speaking to WND.
The Egyptian security officials said the message was coordinated with NATO members, specifically with the U.S. and European Union.
Assad has been widely accused of ordering massacres on militants and protesters engaged in an insurgency targeting his regime.
The Egyptian officials said Turkish leaders, speaking for NATO, told Assad that he has until March to implement democratization that would allow free elections as well as major constitutional reforms.

Read more: Brace for next U.S.-Mideast war http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=333897#ixzz1V....
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#Syria RT @blakehounshell: hearing now that the withdrawal of UN staff was in the works even before Lattakia events.
40 minutes ago

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CNN picks it up.

@cnnbrk: U.N. pulls 26 "non-essential" staff out of #Syria as violence flares. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/1....
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Looks like things are heating up again in Latakia and Damascus this evening -

21:41 A huge blast was heard in Latakia moments ago. (F.N.N.)

21:43 Electricity was cut off in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus as security forces deployed to the area, Al-Arabiya television cited eyewitnesses as saying.

21:52 Heavy gunfire was heard in the Al-Qalaa neighborhood of Latakia, Al-Jazeera television reported.

To read more: http://www.nowlebanon.com/404.aspx



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RT @BreakingNews: Syria's Assad tells UN chief that military operations against protesters have stopped - AFP http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayartic....

Also that he pooped in his pants... just a little.

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RT @BreakingNews: More: Obama to make call for Assad to step down in written statement; will also slap new sanctions on Syria - AP http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/U....

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@cspan: Statement from Secretary Clinton (@StateDept) on Syria - LIVE at 10am ET on C-SPAN2 http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN2....
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cnn, just watching - anderson vs assad's un representative:

so far anderson didn't give him the slightest chance to finish the sentence, anderson's rhetoric was bombastic mussolini style.

it looks like a******ordered from above.

i smell the gas leaking here.


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Military front #5 on the way. Or is it #6??

1. Iraq

2. Afghanistan

3. Libya

4. Yemen

5. Somalia (?)

6. Syria

Hasten the bankruptcy of this country why don't they? *sarc

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There is a possibility of Turkey / Syria. Turkey has been warning Syria for weeks now.

Turkey being a NATO member makes things even more "interesting".

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Russia opposes U.S. and
European leaders' calls for
Syrian President Bashar al-
Assad to resign, Interfax
news agency reported Friday,
saying that the leader should
get more time to implement
reforms.
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European calls for President
Bashar Assad to step down,
saying they revealed the
"face of the conspiracy"
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