Via FLC
ISTANBUL—"Syria's Muslim Brotherhood said Friday that they support Western military intervention in Libya, but see no need for similar action in their own country. Libyan President Moammar "Gadhafi was killing his own people. There was no other option" than to impose a no-fly zone and act to protect civilians, the movement's political chief, Mohamed Tayfur, said in an interview.
In Syria, by contrast, "this is an internal problem. We believe it can be solved as brothers and that it would be easy to solve this problem internally," Mr. Tayfur said. Mr.
Tayfur and the movement's general secretary, Riad Al-Shaqfa, were just the latest Arab Islamist leaders to make the trek to Turkey since uprisings began to roil the region earlier this year....
The two men said repeatedly that they didn't believe Syrian President Bashir Assad would carry through with promised reforms and predicted that protests would continue...."
Posted by G, M, Z, or B at 4:16 PM
Uprooted Palestinian
No comments:
Post a Comment