Thursday, September 22, 2011

US envoy: Assad losing support among key constituents -- JPost - Middle East

US envoy: Assad losing support among key c... JPost - Middle East

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Syrian President Bashar Assad is losing support among key constituents and risks plunging his country into sectarian strife, the US ambassador to Damascus said on Thursday.

“The government violence is actually creating retaliation and creating even more violence in our analysis, and it is also increasing the risk of sectarian conflict,” Robert Ford said in a phone interview with Reuters from Damascus.

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“I don’t think that the Syrian government today, September 22, is close to collapse.

I think time is against the regime because the economy is going into a more difficult situation, the protest movement is continuing and little by little groups that used to support the government are beginning to change.”

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