clip from article: "DAMASCUS — Red Cross and Red Crescent rescuers left the Syrian rebel city of Homs on Tuesday after talks to evacuate trapped Western journalists foundered, spokesman for the two aid groups said. “Our team returned to Damascus at around 2:30 P.M. (1230 GMT) after negotiations yesterday and today with a sheikh (religious official) who was serving as an intermediary,” to evacuate the journalists, Abdel Rahman Attar told AFP. “He asked for food and medical supplies for the residents of Baba Amr and our team accepted. We asked in return to meet the journalists, but he refused,” Attar added. The International Committee of the Red Cross in Damascus said its delegates had left Homs for the same reasons. “The ICRC team has returned. The negotiations have been halted and the situation is very tense in Baba Amr,” the rebel stronghold of Homs where journalists are believed trapped, said ICRC spokesman Saleh Dabbakeh. There are three Western reporters trapped in Baba Amr, a rebel stronghold of Homs, where a rocket attack last week on a makeshift media centre also killed two other journalists." read more at link
clip from article: "DAMASCUS — Red Cross and Red Crescent rescuers left the Syrian rebel city of Homs on Tuesday after talks to evacuate trapped Western journalists foundered, spokesman for the two aid groups said.
ReplyDelete“Our team returned to Damascus at around 2:30 P.M. (1230 GMT) after negotiations yesterday and today with a sheikh (religious official) who was serving as an intermediary,” to evacuate the journalists, Abdel Rahman Attar told AFP.
“He asked for food and medical supplies for the residents of Baba Amr and our team accepted. We asked in return to meet the journalists, but he refused,” Attar added.
The International Committee of the Red Cross in Damascus said its delegates had left Homs for the same reasons.
“The ICRC team has returned. The negotiations have been halted and the situation is very tense in Baba Amr,” the rebel stronghold of Homs where journalists are believed trapped, said ICRC spokesman Saleh Dabbakeh.
There are three Western reporters trapped in Baba Amr, a rebel stronghold of Homs, where a rocket attack last week on a makeshift media centre also killed two other journalists." read more at link