Syria Protests: U.S. State Department Orders Some Embassy Staff To Leave Country

April 26, 2011 2:16:02 AM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Monday it has ordered some non-essential U.S. embassy officials in Damascus and all embassy dependents to leave Syria because of the "uncertainty and volatility" in the country.

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Comments

[ArchStanton400]

12:00 AM on 04/26/2011

It's likely our State/Mis-Stake department is doing this because Wayne Madsen just blew the cover on a CIA black-op's program today that clearly showns the US is funding BOTH the Assad Govt and the Rebel Protesters, or the usual playing-both-sides-against-the-middle as has been standard operating procedure in Washingtoon for several Decades. You can watch/read the full report here: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/175554.html

[nopaytaxes]

11:41 PM on 04/25/2011

gee what happened to the "we are all equal" speech that barak likes to give??

[Gail Garabedian]

11:37 PM on 04/25/2011

Yep I see blood on your hands

[monitor111]

11:35 PM on 04/25/2011

US should solve all Middle Eastern problems once and for all...declare crusade...baptize everybody...fight Iran and Syria and Pakistan...take away their nukes...there is a lot of God's work to be done

[inkhosi]

11:18 PM on 04/25/2011

What with the whole bloodied hands thing they're always doing? How freakin' feral can you get?

[Gail Garabedian]

11:37 PM on 04/25/2011

Is that a rhetorical question?

[inkhosi]

12:59 AM on 04/26/2011

Well, initially it WAS!

[William50]

11:18 PM on 04/25/2011

The Syrian government by forcing the issue and destroying, for the moment the leadership, by not allowing a small group to travel the world in search of air craft to bomb, has defused the threat against the government of UN military action. That was and is a lie, but damn it sounded good!
Now, what Syria has done is put troops in place around the military bases and gone on the attack to protect the government that has been elected or ruled with the agreement of the military. Always keep in mind, the military decides the fate of the nation.

[David01]

11:12 PM on 04/25/2011

Mr. President: get them all out, close the embassy and start flying drones over Syria.

[MISTERUNCONVENTIONAL]

10:49 PM on 04/25/2011

/Caption Contest

$5 footlongs all day long at Subway, Tripoli.

[RABSR]

12:05 AM on 04/26/2011

“/Caption Contest

$5 footlongs all day long at Subway, Tripoli. “


Grins

Howbout


Infidel’s….

They melt in your hand, not your mouth.

[david5000]

10:42 PM on 04/25/2011

This does not sound good.

When the embassy staff start to leave, military action moves in.

[GOATLEY3]

10:41 PM on 04/25/2011

Sorry but I'm not willing to spill one more drop of my or anyone else's blood in this but crack region of the world.

[lqw]

10:40 PM on 04/25/2011

Here we go again, another kinetic military action for humanitarian reason's right ?

[syllepsis]

10:36 PM on 04/25/2011

I wonder why they haven't bombed Assad's compound yet.

Isn't that the proper way to begin a war/

[Fairness4ALLPeople]

10:46 PM on 04/25/2011

He doesn't have oil in his country. The combination that prompts "intervention" (aka as bombing for "humanity") is when a dictator does not have good relations with the west AND has oil. Saddam and now Qaddafi are examples of this. Assad doesn't fit this criteria. Neither does Kim Jong Il.

[syllepsis]

11:12 PM on 04/25/2011

that's why Saddam and Qaddafi are monsters, while Assad is a mere "generic dictator" (NPR actually used this term).

Poor Syria. They haven't been anybody's top prize since the days of Sargon the Gareat.

[WorldEdition]

10:33 PM on 04/25/2011

Here comes the politics.

I wonder if they'll really leave.

[CubnKira]

10:33 PM on 04/25/2011

How about telling our Ambassador who never should have been sent there in the first place to leave on the first plane? Guess that makes too much sense.