Thursday, September 29, 2011

Syrian regime supporters pelt US envoy with eggs

Syrian regime supporters pelt US envoy with eggs

Syrian policemen guard the entrance to the office of Hassan Abdul-Azim, head of the outlawed Arab Socialist Democratic Union party, after supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad pelted US Ambassador Robert Ford with eggs and tomatoes as he was enter Abdul-Azim's office, in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday Sept. 29, 2011. Assad supporters pelted the U.S. ambassador to Syria with eggs and tomatoes Thursday as he entered an office for a meeting with a leading opposition figure and then tried to storm the building in the capital Damascus, the opposition activist said. Ambassador Robert Ford, an outspoken critic of Assad's crackdown on the 6-month-old anti-government uprising, was trapped in the office for about three hours until Syria security forces showed up and escorted him out. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)
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