how much longer for assad?
 

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news...r-syrias-assad

Russia: We can do no more for Syria's Assad

By msnbc.com news services
MOSCOW - A top Kremlin aide said on Monday Moscow could do little more for Syrian President Bashar Assad, opening the door to a shift in Russia's position after 10 months of bloodshed.

Moscow is one of Assad's few remaining allies, resisting pressure to call for his resignation and, with China, blocking a Western-crafted U.N. Security Council resolution that would have condemned a crackdown that has killed thousands of civilians.

But Russia can do no more, state-run news agency Itar-Tass quoted Mikhail Margelov, a senior lawmaker who is President Dmitry Medvedev's special Africa envoy and has also engaged in diplomacy over Syria, as saying.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/30/world/...ntent=My+Yahoo

U.N. to consider call for Assad to step down

By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 9:40 AM EST, Mon January 30, 2012

United Nations (CNN) -- The U.N. Security Council will take up a draft resolution this week that calls on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and transfer power.

The move follows news that the Arab League suspended a mission to monitor whether al-Assad was abiding by an agreement to end a brutal crackdown against anti-government protesters.

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil el-Araby arrived Monday in New York, where he was scheduled to deliver the monitoring mission's findings to the Security Council the following day.

This was nice of our Syrian friends:

http://m.nypost.com/f/mobile/news/in...x9fTz2hCM4mLhJ

no doubt a drone will be on the way shortly. i wonder if the guy was happy to be let out??

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news...-veto-on-syria


apparently russia forgot they said they could do 'no more' for syria. i agree with hilary, the vote by russia and china is a travesty...but certainly not a surprise.

I'm more concerned about what Russia is doing in Antarctica.

Why is that? Are you talking about the lake?

Vostok. Supossedly there has been no contact with the drill site all week. Might be the Thing.

Maybe we used HAARP on them.

Saw that yesterday, might very well be the thing.

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/02...-drilling.html


This is so fascinating. They're going back in December. Perfect timing for a super-virus to be unleashed.

I agree w/the President on this one

Let them work it out for themselves!

assad feeling the heat, throws the opposition a bone:

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news...k-syria-rebels