U.S. Says It's 'Past Time' for U.N. Action against Syria
The White House on Tuesday condemned the Syrian regime's unrelenting violence against protesters, saying it was "past time" for the U.N. Security Council to take actions against Damascus.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Syria had failed to comply with standards set by Arab observers monitoring the situation, adding that "as sniper fire, torture, and murder in Syria continue, it is clear that the requirements of the Arab League protocol have not been met."
He added that the moment had arrived for the international community to take measures against President Bashar al-Assad and his government.
"We believe it's past time for the Security Council to act," Carney said.
"We want to see the international community stand together united in support of the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people," he said.
"We're working with our international partners to increase the pressure on the Assad regime to cease the completely unacceptable violence that it's been perpetrating on its own citizens."
Democracy activists have denounced the Arab League observer mission as "unprofessional," after the bloc's chief admitted snipers were still active in the country despite their presence.
The mission has been mired in controversy since the first observers arrived on December 26, with activists accusing Syria's regime of keeping the monitors on a short leash as it presses on with its lethal crackdown on dissent.
After weeks of stalling, Syria agreed last month to allow the deployment of observers as part of an Arab roadmap calling for the withdrawal of the military from cities and residential districts, a halt to violence against civilians and the release of detainees.
Despite the presence of the monitors, violence continued on the ground, with the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, saying another 11 people were killed in various parts of the country on Monday.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 18 members of the security services died during clashes with army deserters in the southern city of Daraa.
The United Nations estimates more than 5,000 people have been killed in the crackdown since March.
over 12 years
The Syrian regime is doomed. The whole region wants them gone except for a few bootlickers who gain from them.
over 12 years
Hee hee... Jabal Ameel is really really funny. Please keep posting cause you crack me up. You're hilarious. Keep it up.
over 12 years
Nice, but not against israel for once in past 60+ years???
Anyway I still see that the Arabs are blind to your hypocrisy, so you must have done a very good job in blinding their minds too. Now they are going to war against each other. Good plan to enslave them further for your and Israel's interests.
What more can i say? bwahahahahahaha
over 12 years
Yes the entire world is against you because you are the GREAT DO GOODERS and the entire world is evil imperialists. They have infiltrated your country and brainwashed your people with so called "western freedom" by the hundreds of thousands trying to destroy your "NATIONALITY"...
sometimes I really wonder do you guys actually take your selves seriously with these idiotic comments?
over 12 years
Did you guys know that as part of US sanctions, supposedly against the regime, it is illegal for me to send money to my family in Syria to support them? These sanctions are meant to hit the people of Syria directly to break down their spirits and force them into submission and into opposition of the government. The Syrian people and leadership will prevail though because they are a unit.
over 12 years
You know come to think about it I cannot blame Israel for all the evil that they did to the Palestinains. The arab regimes around it, and I mean all including the shaqiqa are culprits in some way or the other. But at the top of that list is Egypt and
over 12 years
.. and saudi arabia
over 12 years
I see airstrikes on Syria in the near future..
over 12 years
you call Bashar a killer but then you are also wishing for more killing to happen so he can be removed. And by whom? by the forces that have been supporting and watching israel occupy, oppress and ethnically cleanse the palestinians for the past 60+ years.
over 12 years
Sir, To deal with the occupation and oppression it is essential not to oppress his people, not to kill his people and start building a free democratic republic. No human, no Arab should bear this tyrant Al-Assad. There is no worse to kill his own people!! Stop saying that is the fault of others, and that is the fault of the US ... blah blah blah. It's our fault we Arabic people are unable to judge this despotic regime, unable to judge our own politicians shameful, corrupt and despotic!
over 12 years
They (US) used to be buddies with Al-Qaida then they got bin-Laden as a rersult later; They used to be buddies with saddam to fight Iran, then they got saddam later, Not sure what monster they are creating now that they are buddies with the salafis/brotherhood again to fight iran.
Wake up to the hypocrisy people.
over 12 years
This US citizen differentiates between the US and US foreign policy. The first I love, the second I passionatly oppose and behold as evil.
over 12 years
murad :"it is illegal for me to send money to my family in Syria to support them? "
so why did you quit your marvelous country which regime brings happiness and work to its citizens thanks to the baath party which only thinks of the welfare of people no ? if it was so nice in syria you wouldn t leave!!!!!
over 12 years
if US and the European allies want Assad and his totalitarian regime to be removed.they would have done it long time ago.i believe this is just a political game that's being played;Assad is going nowhere,he still is a US pupet.
over 12 years
Bashar is not a leader by all means, he is no better than Sharon/Barak and etc..if he has 1% of leadership he would have quit his job 10 months ago just for not being able to bring closure to the situation in his own Country regardless of who is side or fault the situation is, he is making a fool of himself every day that passes by and he's not resigned as Mubarak or any leader that admits on public TV that he has no control over the Shabiha actions. Agreed, time for a change is past due, but we want actions on the ground from you.
over 12 years
The US says: blah this, blah that, blah these, blah those, blah the other ones... at the UN, to which Russia and China reply by telling the US to get the blah out of here!
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Touché Peace.
You nailed this hypocrite down.
over 12 years
Bomb Syria
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the military industrial complex that rules usa belives that it sets the time in the worlds.
the filthy zionist information war department defending and expanding on usa ideas. they have to. it's their master and they have to show obedience every time.
over 12 years
jabalahbal : LOL! keep on giving me good laughs!
over 12 years
I agree the military industrial complex that rules usa believes that it sets the time in the worlds and make all clocks stop when they want. But their wishes and dreams of setting time and stopping clocks will not come true. Some people here defend and expand on those ideas because they must because they are servants to the usa and they have to show obedience everytime usa sets the time in the worlds.
over 12 years
the filthy zionist information war department is obsessivly repeating same stupidities.
the globalist imperialistic capitalist powers want the defiance patriotic regimes to submit to their evil wishes. They are dreaming as usual and their wishes will break on the rocks of our national front