Bryan
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On Mar 28, 2011, at 11:24, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/venezuelas-chavez-offers-supports-to-syrian-leader-amid-protests-blames-us-forunrest/2011/03/26/AFFCkteB_story.html
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> or
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> http://liten.be//bZFNt
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> AP - March 26, 2011
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> Venezuela's Chavez Offers Support to Syrian Leader Amid Protests, Blames U.S. for Unrest"
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> Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expressed support for Syria's president on Saturday, calling him a "humanist" and a "brother" facing a wave of violent protests backed by the United States and its allies.
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> Chavez's support for President Bashar Assad follows his defense of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who is fighting rebels backed by international airstrikes.
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> Venezuela's socialist leader accused Washington of fomenting the protests in Syria as a pretext for Libya-style airstrikes.
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> "Now some supposed political protest movements have begun (in Syria), a few deaths ... and now they are accusing the president of killing his people and later the Yankees will come to bomb the people to save them," Chavez said in a televised speech....
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> Assad, who opponents have called a repressive autocrat, "is a humanist, doctor, educated in London, in no way an extremist; he is a man of great human sensitivity," said Chavez. "We salute him from here."
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