Pro-Assad crowd tries to storm Syria meeting

Tunisian police wielding batons beat back several dozen protesters trying to enter the venue of an international meeting on the Syria crisis in Tunis Feb. 24, 2012. / AFP/Getty Images

TUNIS, Tunisia - About 200 pro-Syrian demonstrators tried to storm the hotel where a conference is being held by Arab and Western officials over the crisis in Syria.

The protest forced U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to be diverted to her hotel, delaying her appearance at the "Friends of Syria" conference.

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The protesters, waving Syrian and Tunisian flags, tussled with police and carried signs criticizing Clinton and President Obama.

Police wielding truncheons stopped them from entering the venue and drove them out of the parking lot after about 15 minutes.

The U.S. and European and Arab allies are expected to back a proposal for Syria's president to step aside and allow in humanitarian assistance to end a brutal crackdown against opponents.

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[skeezix06]

Sounds to me like they decided to take a page out of the 2000 republican pro-Bush crowd in Florida.

[venusvegasvada]

What a joke. Nice try Assad.

[robbyr2]

Egypt is a mess. Tunisia is a mess. Libya is the latest Somalia. Gaza is a mess. Syria is next. When will the West realize none of this our business?

[train99]

Obama's "business" IS to make things a mess. That's the strategy.

[smittyc]

The American public is NOT going to tolerate another foreign war. The fact of the matter is the diplomacy coming from the white house is causing gas prices to rise and predicted to reach over 5 dollars a gallon. That will grind our economy to a halt, crash the stock market and send unemployment through the roof.

[stevex47]

Yes, you are right, the sky IS falling.

[STEVENROHAN]

This is a old school CIA Coup D'etat made to look like the Arab Spring. The fact that its not going anywhere, speaks volumes to it being initiated by the CIA and backed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

The credit to this testimony is the current OPEN ADMISSION of the US to support Gun Running into Syria with the help of Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

You know something? If Qatar & Saudi Arabia started to arm the Occupy Wallstreet movement, that would be an act of war. GUESS WHAT? That is precisely what Qatar and Saudi Arabia have done. Proclaim war on Syria. A cold War. And the US? A Covert War.

The Russians and Chinese are no fools.
Hillary Clinton is going to do her private backroom dance for money elsewhere. This has got BS written all over it.

[usunus]

You seem to be entirely right,except for some details.In Syria they want to repeat Libya, where the NATO bombed and killed over 70,000 innocent civilians to save them from another brutal dictator ! They are still butchering each other in the Libya these same hypocrites " liberated ".