Red Crescent official shot dead in Syria

[maddezmom]

AP) BEIRUT - The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent branch in the northern town of Idlib was shot dead Wednesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, and activists reported deadly clashes elsewhere between government forces and army defectors.


Abdulrazak Jbero was on his way by from Damascus to Idlib when he was shot, said Hicham Hassan, an ICRC spokesman in Geneva. An ICRC statement said he was riding in a "vehicle clearly marked with a Red Crescent emblem" and expressed shock at the killing.


Syria's state-run media blamed "terrorists" for the attack.


President Bashar Assad's regime claims terrorists acting out a foreign conspiracy are behind the country's 10-month-old uprising, not protesters seeking change in one of the region's most autocratic states.

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[roguevalley]

1. mercy workers should be fragging exempt from this crap.

[pampango]

2. Aljazeera: Senior Red Crescent official killed in Syria

The secretary general of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) has been killed in Syria, as security forces continued attacks on protest hubs across the country.

Abdulrazaq Jbeiro, who is also the head of (SARC) in the northern province of Idlib, was shot dead as he was travelling by car to Idlib after taking part in meetings in Damascus, the capital, the International Committee of the Red Cross told Al Jazeera.

Earlier on Wednesday, Russia said it would continue to resist sanctions against Syria, but that it is "open to constructive proposals", as the Arab League continues to seek UN support for a plan to end the crackdown by President Bashar al-Assad's government.

The Arab League is continuing to pushing for a UN Security Council resolution to end the violence, which the UN says has killed more than 5,000 people since March last year. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that elevating the Syria issue to the UN was "the only option".

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/01/2012125104441775248.html