Assad still defiant as Arab League snubs Syria
Reuters | Nov 21, 2011, 05.53AM IST
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Amman: The Arab League said on Sunday it had rebuffed a request by Damascus to amend plans for a 500-strong monitoring mission to Syria, after president Bashar al-Assad vowed to continue his crackdown and said he would not surrender to outside pressure.
Within hours of Assad ignoring a deadline to halt repression of protesters, two rocket-propelled grenades hit a major ruling party building in Damascus on Sunday, the first such reported attack by insurgents inside the capital since protests began.
Confronted since March by street protests, Assad said he had no choice but to pursue his crackdown on unrest because his foes were armed. "The conflict will continue and the pressure to subjugate Syria will continue," he told Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.
Arab League secretary general Nabil Elaraby rejected Syria's approach about altering a plan for the fact-finding mission - which would include military personnel and human rights experts - in a letter to Syria's foreign minister.
"It will affect the heart of the protocol and fundamentally change the nature of the mission,"
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Amman: The Arab League said on Sunday it had rebuffed a request by Damascus to amend plans for a 500-strong monitoring mission to Syria, after president Bashar al-Assad vowed to continue his crackdown and said he would not surrender to outside pressure.
Within hours of Assad ignoring a deadline to halt repression of protesters, two rocket-propelled grenades hit a major ruling party building in Damascus on Sunday, the first such reported attack by insurgents inside the capital since protests began.
Confronted since March by street protests, Assad said he had no choice but to pursue his crackdown on unrest because his foes were armed. "The conflict will continue and the pressure to subjugate Syria will continue," he told Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.
Arab League secretary general Nabil Elaraby rejected Syria's approach about altering a plan for the fact-finding mission - which would include military personnel and human rights experts - in a letter to Syria's foreign minister.
"It will affect the heart of the protocol and fundamentally change the nature of the mission,"
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