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Following are excerpts from a report broadcast on Al-Dunya TV on July 13, 2011:
Reporter: Accusations were leveled against the Syrian demonstrators, who protested US ambassador Robert Ford's visit to Hama. The UN Security Council and the US act as the two parts of a pincer. [Ford's] blond boss, Clinton, waffled on about President Assad losing legitimacy. Observers mockingly ask: Since when has President Assad derived legitimacy from the US?
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With total disdain for diplomatic rules, the representative of the US mission of blood went to Hama, with a single goal in mind, a goal supported by his country's ideology and policies –
"Igniting Civil Strife"
"Spreading Anarchy"
"The objective:"
"Internationalizing the Crisis"
"This was the step taken by the US administration after it lost all its bargaining chips, and was left without any role worthy of mention in kindling the crisis. Then it produced the fake chip of acting swiftly on the scene in order to rekindle the protests. It provided some of the saboteurs with tapping and transmission devices, which have a dual purpose. The first is to broadcast live images of the demonstrations, and the second is to spy on the army, security agencies, and police force, in the areas of confrontation. These devices were designed to prevent their easy detection.
It is no trivial matter for a nation that knows the meaning of honor, and that has drunk from the waters of Syrian patriotism, when the soil of its homeland is defiled by such a man [Ford].
Along the road from Hama back to Damascus, the Syrians greeted the US ambassador with eggs and tomatoes, and observers say that he would encounter the same fate if the reports about his intention to visit Deir Al-Zur turn to be true.
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Because it is one of the parties of evil targeting Syria, its people, and its leadership, the US administration has left no stone unturned in its efforts to harm Damascus and its regime of resistance.
After the failure of the charade of the fiery rhetoric, and the support, in the form of arms and money, provided to the conspirers, relying on vanquishing Syria through various forms of international pressure, and sanctions meant to undermine its economic stability, and after strumming the chord of the reputation of the Syrian army, in an effort to degrade its cohesiveness in the face of these events, the turn of the privately-owned and public Syrian media to be targeted has come.
This is a new badge of honor for the Syrian media: It is being accused of supporting what is right, and rejecting the cowboy mentality. This is said by the Syrian people.
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