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![Bag’s Take-Away:
Pro-Assad demonstrators provide classic example why people up-in-arms. Can’t separate the man from the State.
pantslessprogressive:
Supporters of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad hold up a national flag with a picture of him, in Damascus on March 25. [Photo: REUTERS]
The latest on Syria:
Syrian authorities confirm the country will revoke its emergency law. Emergency law has been in place since 1963. [AJE]
Sana, Syria’s official news agency, says 12 people have been killed in the town of Latakia in the past two days. [AJE]
President Assad will address the nation ‘very soon’. [France24]
Assad deployed the Syrian army Saturday night for the first time since protests began. [Reuters]
The U.S. will not intervene in Syria, says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. [Bloomberg]
The U.S. should intervene in Syria, says Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT). [The Hill]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez backed Assad on Saturday, calling him a ‘humanist’. [Haaretz]
Israel believes Iran and Hezbollah are suppressing the protests in Syria. [J Post]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liq1y4FjXy1qzr73ro1_1280.jpg "Bag’s Take-Away:
Pro-Assad demonstrators provide classic example why people up-in-arms. Can’t separate the man from the State.
pantslessprogressive:
Supporters of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad hold up a national flag with a picture of him, in Damascus on March 25. [Photo: REUTERS]
The latest on Syria:
Syrian authorities confirm the country will revoke its emergency law. Emergency law has been in place since 1963. [AJE]
Sana, Syria’s official news agency, says 12 people have been killed in the town of Latakia in the past two days. [AJE]
President Assad will address the nation ‘very soon’. [France24]
Assad deployed the Syrian army Saturday night for the first time since protests began. [Reuters]
The U.S. will not intervene in Syria, says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. [Bloomberg]
The U.S. should intervene in Syria, says Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT). [The Hill]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez backed Assad on Saturday, calling him a ‘humanist’. [Haaretz]
Israel believes Iran and Hezbollah are suppressing the protests in Syria. [J Post]")
Bag’s Take-Away:
Pro-Assad demonstrators provide classic example why people up-in-arms. Can’t separate the man from the State.
Supporters of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad hold up a national flag with a picture of him, in Damascus on March 25. [Photo: REUTERS]
The latest on Syria:
Syrian authorities confirm the country will revoke its emergency law. Emergency law has been in place since 1963. [AJE]
Sana, Syria’s official news agency, says 12 people have been killed in the town of Latakia in the past two days. [AJE]
President Assad will address the nation ‘very soon’. [France24]
Assad deployed the Syrian army Saturday night for the first time since protests began. [Reuters]
The U.S. will not intervene in Syria, says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. [Bloomberg]
The U.S. should intervene in Syria, says Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT). [The Hill]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez backed Assad on Saturday, calling him a ‘humanist’. [Haaretz]
Israel believes Iran and Hezbollah are suppressing the protests in Syria. [J Post]
(Source: pantslessprogressive)
Bag’s Take-away:
If you can see “Where are you Security Council” in English, and it looks like this guy is looking right at you, then this protest, especially after 5 days of previous protesting (many pics only uploaded by cell phone, but this one actually shot by an actual newswire photographer) must be considered a success.
Syrian nationals demonstrate outside the Syrian consulate in Dubai Thursday to denounce the use of force against civilians in the Syrian city of Daraa. (KARIM SAHIB / AFP - Getty Images)
“It was a very difficult, bloody day,” one resident told the AP after yesterday’s deadly clashes between protesters and security forces. The death toll still seems to be on the rise today, unfortunately.
