BEIRUT
(AP) — Jordan's King Abdullah said Tuesday that Syrian President Bashar
Assad should step down, making him the first Arab ruler to issue such a
call over the regime's deadly crackdown on an 8-month-old uprising.
The
surprising statement comes as Arabs close ranks against Damascus. On
Saturday, the Arab League voted to suspend Syria over attacks on
protesters that the U.N. estimates have killed 3,500 people since
mid-March.
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