Jordan's king: "Clock is ticking" in Syria

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Weekend massacre of over 100 people prompts Russia to take an unusually hard line against ally Syria<div class=feedflare>
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Top envoy given 72 hours to leave Washington; In coordinated blow to Assad's regime, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, Britain and Australia also tell his representatives to get out<div class=feedflare>
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Western states announce they are expelling senior Syrian diplomats following the killing of 108 people in the Houla region of Syria on Friday.

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[DrLeftover]

Oh, that should stop the killing immediately.

 

[Sinon]

I don't understand this. I don't see how kicking someone out of the country because they're from a certain other country is even legal. Especially considering the reason they're being kicked out is actually nothing to do with them.

 

[Evil Eye]

It sends a message, get your act together, get your nation under control, we won't do business with you if you don't. Trade blocks are pretty scary after all.

 

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U.N. says 13 more bodies found as outrage over Houla massacre fails to persuade Syria's allies harsher measures needed<div class=feedflare>
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The UN Human Rights Council calls for an investigation into the killing of more than 100 civilians at Houla, and condemns Syria for the massacre.

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[DrLeftover]

That should solve the problem.



They'll find a way to blame it on the previous US administration and be done with it.

 

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Activists accuse Syrian government forces of massacring 78 in a village near Hama, condemned by the US as unconscionable.

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expresses deep frustration with the violence in Syria, warning of an imminent danger of civil war.

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U.N. observers reach village where opposition says regime forces massacred scores of people<div class=feedflare>
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[DrLeftover]

Let me think about this one.... the fighting that's been going on there for months now IS NOT a civil war?



OK. got it.

 

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A BBC correspondent finds evidence of human remains at the village of Qubair in Syria, scene of a massacre reported on Wednesday.

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As killings continue in Syria, Gen. Richard Myers discusses that country's military capabilities and the options - diplomatic and otherwise - open to the U.S.   Video<div class=feedflare>
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Watch: CBS News' Elizabeth Palmer sees destruction left by fierce fighting between rebels and Assad regime's forces in Homs<div class=feedflare>
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Syrian troops are torturing children and using them as human shields on tanks to prevent attacks by opposition forces, a UN report says.

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UN observers in Syria suspend their activities because of the escalating violence, the head of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Syria says.

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[DrLeftover]

CAIRO — The United Nations said Saturday that it was suspending its observer mission in Syria because of the escalating violence, the most severe blow yet to months of effort by the United Nations to negotiate a peace plan and prevent Syria’s descent into civil war.













The United Nations said the monitors would not be withdrawn from Syria, but rather were being locked down in Syria’s most contested cities, unable to conduct patrols. While the decision to suspend their work was made chiefly to protect the unarmed monitors, the unstated purpose appeared to be to force Russia to intervene and assure that the observers are not the targets of Syrian forces or their sympathizers. Russia has opposed Western intervention and, by some accounts, continues to arm the forces of President Bashar al-Assad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/w...-in-syria-citing-violence.html?pagewanted=all





Question: And why is the UN there in the first place?

 

[Evil Eye]

Question: And why is the UN there in the first place?

Interfering in the interest of stability?