Observers head to Syria amid international uproar
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Arab League delegates traveled to Syria Thursday to arrange the deployment of foreign monitors under a plan aimed at ending the regime's deadly 9-month-old crackdown on dissent. They arrive in the midst of a new international uproar over activist reports that government troops killed more than 200 people in two days, with Turkey condemning President Bashar Assad over the "bloodbath."
The opposition suspects Assad's agreement to allow hundreds of Arab League monitors in after weeks of stalling is only a tactic to buy time and ward off a new round of international sanctions and condemnation. (AP)
