Syrian opposition signs plan for post-Assad future

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Source: Reuters

Two leading Syrian opposition parties have agreed a road map to democracy should a popular uprising succeed in toppling President Bashar al-Assad, according to a copy of the document seen by Reuters.

Hundreds of thousands had taken to the streets across Syria on Friday, aiming to demonstrate the strength of their movement to Arab League monitors checking whether Assad is implementing a pledge to halt a violent crackdown on unrest that has been raging since March.

The observer mission has already stirred controversy for its lack of numbers and comments by its Sudanese leader, General Mohammed al-Dabi, suggesting he was reassured by first impressions of Homs, one of the main centers of unrest.

He later backtracked from the reports of those remarks, but appeared likely to cause fresh concern that the mission would be soft on Syria by undermining the comments of one of his observers in Deraa, cradle of the uprising, posted in a video on YouTube early on Saturday.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/01/us-syria-idUSTRE7BO0B620120101

[No Elephants]

1. Hundreds of thousands in the streets in Syria, hundreds of thousands in the streets in Cairo.

Meanwhile the citizens of a much, much larger nation seem content beyond reason.