Syria buried 22 bodies of military forces

Syria buried yesterday Saturday 22 members of its armed forces, including six pilots, and the Government reiterated his message that the rebellion of eight months against the Government of President Bashar Assad is the work of terrorists and foreign, not Syrian agents seeking reforms.

But without evidence that the violence will abate, Arab Ministers prepared plans for sanctions against the country's economic

If the Arab League imposed sanctions, that would be a serious blow to a regime which is considered a power of Arab nationalism. Syria faces increasing international pressures to put an end to the violent repression, which the UN says has killed more than 3,500 people.

The sanctions the European Union
and United States have imposed a series of sanctions against Assad and his regime, including a ban on imports of Syrian oil. "Us and European sanctions are one thing, but sanctions of their Arab brothers" u000a"they are more harmful psychological and objectively," said Nikolaos van Dam, a former diplomat and expert on the Middle East.

However, there is a lot of scepticism that Arab sanctions are sufficient to persuade the Syrian regime to put an end to the violence, which many fear is taking the country into civil war.

Also yesterday Saturday, a Syrian dissident based in Egypt said to his wife of 25 years and who expects a baby was kidnapped in Cairo by intelligence agents Syrians who left later, unconscious, in a street

The Syrian in Egypt Embassy rejected categorically the assertion.

Thaer Al - Nashef, outspoken critic of the regime of President Bashar Assad, said his wife, Mona al - Gharib, was found by an elderly woman who used women's cell phone to call her mother.

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