Ghalioun Says Arab Monitors in Homs but 'Cannot Work'
Arab League observers have arrived in the flashpoint Syrian city of Homs but are unable to do their job, the head of the country's main opposition group said on Monday.
Syrian National Council (SNC) head Burhan Ghalioun told reporters at a Paris news conference that some of the observers were in the besieged city "but they are saying they cannot go where the authorities do not want them to go."
He also sought U.N. and Arab League intervention "to put an end to this tragedy," and urged the United Nations Security Council to "adopt the Arab League's plan and ensure that it is applied."
Heavy gunfire killed 23 people in the besieged city on Monday.
On Sunday, the opposition SNC said Homs was under siege and facing an "invasion" from some 4,000 troops deployed near the city that has become a focal point of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
The observers are due to oversee a deal aimed at ending the crackdown, which the U.N. estimates has killed more than 5,000 people since March.
The mission is part of an Arab plan endorsed by Syria on November 2 that calls for the withdrawal of the military from towns and residential districts, a halt to violence against civilians and the release of detainees.
Since signing the agreement, Assad's regime has been accused of intensifying its crackdown.
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Tony...NATO is not stupid enough to want another Iraq or Afghanistan after running away in failure.
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NATO helped the civilians in Kosovo, and they must do the same for Syria. The Arab nations and Turkey obviously have no guts to help..
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Let NATO or the Arab league do what is necessary. Too bad there are sweaty freaks who like to see people dead at the hands of ASSad.
Let the sweaty frek know that the Iranian cowards also only fight by proxy with Arab blood.
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I bet you the USS Cole is on its way to the rescue. If you doubt me just ask the warriors of the now-defunct March 14 and Hariri Crooks and Thieves Co., SARL. They are still waiting by the seaside for the next wave.
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@Red_Satan: You talk about sissies and cowardliness while your top leaders, one is hiding like a rat claiming it's a security measure from the Mossad and never speaks live but rather recorded speeches on TV during his brain washing to the Shiite citizens, and the other M8 leader that was in exile in Paris meanwhile the real M14 hero endured the Syrian lies in Lebanon due to a fabricated church bomb (Similar to the Baath Fabricated Bomb recently)and faced them as well as unfolding their lies and got out. You talk heavy price when your rat destroyed our Country in 2006 meanwhile as usual goes on TV dancing about winning the war of destruction and while every Arab country rebuilt our pricy infrastructure, M14 rebuilt downtown Beirut, and your people ruined the Airport road with their illegal housing as usual (i.e. First entry point of the tourism for Lebanon to have a decent economy).
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ther syrian section of zionist information war department has opened it filthy mouths again so lebanese section joined with tons of nothingness.
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ther syrian section of zionist information war department has opened it filthy mouths again so lebanese section joined with tons of nothingness.
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"yes! let NATO take over! because sissy M14'ers always like their wars done by proxy "
just like aoun who asked the help of the americans.... i guess he is a sissy too then! hahahaha!
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Ghalyoun just proved that the "observer" team is in bed with the "opposition". Why does Ghalyoun, of no authority whatsoever, know where the "observer" team is and what they're doing?
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"know where the "observer" team is and what they're doing?"
because it is on all the news channels ! hahahaha! just watch tv buddy not only elmanar or syrian tv!
Tonyfarris you will live and die and no one will remember your name! Saad hariri should stop talking and he should take arms and go to war instead of living in castles! U call for wars yet u don't know what it's like!