09.12.2011                      13.Kislev. 5772

Syrien:

NATO chief to Haaretz: We won't intervene in Syria crisis

UN says more than 4,000 people were killed in the 9 month crackdown, but Assad says only a 'crazy' leader kills his own people and that most of those killed were government supporters.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has no intention to intervene in the Syrian crisis, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Haaretz on Thursday following a meeting of treaty members' foreign ministers in Brussels.
Rasmussen avoided a direct response on whether or not NATO would intervene should Turkey and Syria be embroiled in a military confect, a situation which could bring Ankara to ask for the support of treaty members….