Friday, March 25, 2011

Is Syria Next?

Gates calls for Syrian forces to move aside

By FT reporters

Published: March 24 2011 15:13 | Last updated: March 24 2011 21:59

Syria should follow Egypt’s lead and the Syrian army should “empower a revolution”, Robert Gates, US secretary of defence, argued as thousands marched in a southern city.

Mr Gates made his comments – some of the toughest remarks to date by a US official about the rule of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s president – on a day of further upheaval in the Middle East and beyond.


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