Embassies attacked across Syria in protest of Rabat meeting

Supporters of President Bashar al-Assad threw stones and debris on Wednesday at the embassy of the United Arab Emirates and smeared its walls with graffiti, witnesses said, hours after an Arab League decision to suspend Syria took effect.  

"You bastards, you agents of Israel," read some of the graffiti, according to two residents who live near the building in the affluent Abu Rummana neighborhood, one of the most secure districts of the capital near the home and offices of Assad.  

On the other hand, thousands of Pro-Assad supporters took the streets in several Syrian cities (Damascus, Aleppo and Latakia) rallying against the Arab League decisions and meeting in Rabat, Morocco on Wednesday where 22 Arab foreign ministers are expected to formalize their decision to suspend Syria's membership. The Moroccan ambassador to Syria reported that dozens of protestors attacked the embassy, pelting it with stones and eggs.

Angry pro-Assad protesters chanted slogans against Arab leaders and their implications in the conspiracy against Syria, according to sources on the ground in Damascus.

Photos courtesy of H. Haddad