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January 6, 2012

Suicide Bombing Kills in 10 in Damascus; Arab League Monitors Face Protest 
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At least ten people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide
bombing in the Syrian capital of Damascus. The attack comes two weeks
after at least 44 people died in a similar bombing, also in the capital.
It also comes ahead of mass demonstratons scheduled for today to protest
the failure of Arab League monitors to stem the Assad regime's
crackdown. At a meeting Thursday in Cairo, Jeffrey Feltman, the U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, said the world is
awaiting a final report from the Arab League on the monitors' findings.
bq. Jeffrey Feltman: "We are all waiting to see what it is that the Arab
League will be saying after their meeting on Sunday and what the interim
report is from the monitors here. Because the Arab League, as I said
before, has taken on an incredibly important responsibility and we want
to defer right now to that meeting on Sunday and let the Arabs have
their own discussions first."



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