Assad loyalists storm US, French embassies in Syria
11th July 2011
AMMAN – Protesters loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad briefly broke into the US embassy in Damascus on Monday and security guards used live ammunition to prevent them storming the French embassy, diplomats said.
Where were the Marines? Probably locked in the basement by some wuss of a Foreign Service officer.
“We are calling in the Syrian charge [d’affaires] to complain,” said the US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“We feel they failed [in their responsibility to protect US diplomats]. We are going to condemn their slow response.”
Ooooh, a Strongly Worded Note. I can hear the Syrian government tremble from here.
July 11th, 2011 at 16:07
And your suggestion as a response would be…what? The last thing we need now is yet ANOTHER foreign intervention. We’re over-stretched as it is.