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Syria's Crackdown Continues
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Syria's Crackdown Continues

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Is Syria's Assad regime deceiving Arab League monitors and using them as cover for continued attacks on political protesters? Also, the Obama Administration has unveiled its much-awaited new defense strategy. We hear about the military and political consequences in an election year.

Banner image: Screen grab from Syria's Torture Machine, Britain's Channel 4 investigation into the detention and torture of Syrian civilians.

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Syria's Crackdown Continues Despite Monitors from the Arab League ()

The United Nations estimates that more than 5000 people have been killed by the government of Syria in the past ten months. After the Assad regime agreed to pull tanks and troops out of cities and talk to the opposition, the Arab League sent a task force to the country last week to monitor progress. In Time magazine, Rania Abouzeid said that might be "mission impossible." We speak with Abouzeid and other about Syria's continued crackdown on dissent despite the presence of monitors from the Arab League. Where does that leave the UN and the US?

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