Syria Mounts Deadly Raids As Russia Backs Regime

[Purveyor]

Source: CBS NEWS

(CBS/AP)

BEIRUT - Syrian troops mounted deadly new raids against dissent Monday as President Bashar Assad's embattled regime won key support from longtime ally Russia, which said a U.N. resolution on Syria must not contain sanctions.

The U.N. said Monday that the death toll has reached at least 2,600 from the government's violent crackdown on protests over the past six months.

Although the crackdown has brought widespread international condemnation, Assad's authoritarian regime has the support of Russia and China, permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with veto powers.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday that Moscow believes any U.N. resolution on Syria must be aimed at both the government and the opposition.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/12/501364/main20104860.shtml

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The region becomes more unstable by the hour and now it seems the big players are choosing up sides.

[jakeXT]

1. Back to normal ..... US & Al Qaeda vs. Russia China

Al-Qaeda militants have been moving in to Syria from neighboring Iraq to take part in operations against the Syrian army and security forces, a top Iraqi border official told the al-Afaq TV channel on Saturday.

“In the past two months we have arrested tens of al-Qaeda members as they attempted to cross into Syria,” the official said.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20110910/166714274.html

[dipsydoodle]

2. It was clear that Russia would do this

in response to the Micky Mouse wording in UN resolution on Libya. They're getting back at the US and the coalition of the stupid.

[PufPuf23]

3. Russia has a naval base in Syria. nt

[Purveyor]

4. Indeed they do. eom