The regime protesters rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in Damascus for 31 hours this weekend.

Pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad protesters gather in front the U.S. Embassy in Damascus July 8. (FOX News)

Pro-Assad protesters stormed the US embassy in Damascus today. The Syrians smashed windows and vandalized the building. They also raised a Syrian flag over the compound.
The AP reported:

Witnesses say Syrian pro-government protesters have attacked the U.S. embassy compound in Damascus, causing damage.

The witnesses said the protesters smashed windows and raised a Syrian flag on the compound on Monday. They also wrote anti-US graffiti referring to the U.S. ambassador as a “dog,” the witnesses said.

The protests were over visits by the U.S. and French ambassadors last week to the opposition stronghold of Hama in central Syria.

The US Ambassador visited the city of Hama last Friday to support the anti-regime protesters.


A pro-Syrian President Bashar Assad protester, holds up an anti-US placard as she protests against the visit of the US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford to Hama, in front the US embassy in Damascus, Syria, on Friday July 8, 2011. (AP)

UPDATE: FOX News is reporting that the mob then moved on and attacked the US Ambassador’s home in Syria. The US Ambassador was at the embassy when the mob attacked his home.

 

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  1. #1 July 11, 2011 at 8:57 am

    shibumi commented:

    How long before Obama blames this on the actions of the Embassy staff and says they “acted stupidly?”

  2. #2 July 11, 2011 at 9:01 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    Thank You Present Barrack Hussein Obama (Barry Dunham
    /Soetoro), honorary mention to Nancy (Mata Hari in a scarf)
    Pelosi..

    ==

  3. #3 July 11, 2011 at 9:02 am

    Snicker commented:

    Syria needs a distraction. The protests have gone from 12 cities to 22 cities with half a million in Hama alone. Also the Harri murder 2005 indictments came down with Syria and Hezbollah names on them. Look for an attack against USA and Israel soon.

  4. #4 July 11, 2011 at 9:04 am

    RickZ commented:

    Obama sending an ambassador to Syria for the first time in decades was another bright idea from the smartest guy in the room.

    Obama is a clueless, malevolent incompetent. (I think that covers everything.)

  5. #6 July 11, 2011 at 9:09 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    didn’t something like this happen under Carter?? /s/

    ==

  6. #7 July 11, 2011 at 9:18 am

    Render commented:

    I wonder if anyone cares that, under any leader with an actual spine, this is an act of war.

  7. #8 July 11, 2011 at 9:18 am

    PacPat commented:

    This is shocking! We have an embassy in Syria?

  8. #9 July 11, 2011 at 9:26 am

    Joe College commented:

    A Russian ship carrying Iranian arms, probably to Hamas, blows up in Turkish Cyprus and the American press does not tell the American people about it. Why?

    Read about it here in the UK Telegraph…

    “At the centre of the explosion at the main Cypriot naval base near the town of Zygi were 98 barrels of munitions seized from a Russian-owned, Cypriot-flagged and Iranian-hired vessel, the Monchegorsk, in January 2009.
    …
    “But the United States and Israel believed the end user was most likely Hamas in the West Bank, which has strong ties to both Syria and Iran.”

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8630189/Iran-explosives-at-centre-of-Cypriot-intrigue.html

  9. #10 July 11, 2011 at 9:26 am

    Paul commented:

    Fire when ready Griddly….

    But Obama only says that to regimes that can’t fight back, like Lybia.

  10. #11 July 11, 2011 at 9:37 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    Joe College #9

    intriguing..

    one thing for sure, at least that cache is
    safe from being exploited by Islamists..

    ==

  11. #12 July 11, 2011 at 9:42 am

    jorgen commented:

    The poor people in Damascus are probably still upset because of Bush.
    Send them some millions or billions of other people’s money.

  12. #13 July 11, 2011 at 9:51 am

    Alex commented:

    I love that the protester in the image complains about Abu Ghraib (which was abhorent and we jailed the people responsible) and Guantanmo (were prisoners of war are kept far more humanely than opposition leaders in Syrian prisons) as though they are on the same level as gunning down thousands of your fellow citizens in cold blood. This is why Syria and the entire middle east are being left behind by the rest of the world.

  13. #14 July 11, 2011 at 9:53 am

    Alex commented:

    And why can’t the protester even spell the name of her next door neighbor correctly?

  14. #15 July 11, 2011 at 9:56 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    Paul #10

    newsflash:

    no matter how much koolaid has been doled out, Qaddafi is not only
    NOT the good guy.. but a real good pal of Barry’s.. not to mention L. Farrakhan, J. Jackson, and J. Wright amongst many others..

    ==

  15. #16 July 11, 2011 at 10:04 am

    Baby M commented:

    And here, Obama’s been falling all over himself to be nice, if not downright obsequious, to Baby Assad. That’s gratitude for ya!

  16. #17 July 11, 2011 at 10:06 am

    FurryGuyJeans commented:

    And here I thought having Barry as POTUS would make the world instantly love us. Silly me for believing anything the MFM had to say regarding Barry had even an iota of being close to remotely resembling reality as seen in a fun house mirror.

  17. #18 July 11, 2011 at 10:06 am

    Finncrisp commented:

    The referencs to the killing of humanity actually did not produce any actual deaths. Genocide in thier country, iran, iraq, darfur, and egypt have. So, who is killing humanity?

    The only thing we are killing is jobs and business in gereral. They need a little more coaching.

  18. #19 July 11, 2011 at 10:07 am

    vityas commented:

    Fine with me if we boogie out of there. Let them have the government they want. Let them be on their knees banging their heads on the ground. And we should protect ourselves from them, not 95 year old leukemia patients wearing adult diapers.

    Why can’t the UN situated itself over there. Instead of eating at the finest restaurants in the world, all the ambassadors can eat falafel and goat meat.

  19. #20 July 11, 2011 at 10:13 am

    tommy mc donnell commented:

    why are they mad at the united states, hillary and obama support assad.

  20. #21 July 11, 2011 at 10:14 am

    eaglewingz08 commented:

    How’s that smart power working out Hillary? Is Assad still a reformer, Barack?

  21. #22 July 11, 2011 at 10:26 am

    FurryGuyJeans commented:

    #14 July 11, 2011 at 9:53 am
    Alex commented:

    And why can’t the protester even spell the name of her next door neighbor correctly?

    Abo Ghraber, Eraq, and Ghazza. Heh.

  22. #23 July 11, 2011 at 10:28 am

    FurryGuyJeans commented:

    #20 July 11, 2011 at 10:13 am
    tommy mc donnell commented:

    why are they mad at the united states, hillary and obama support assad.

    Many on the Left supported Communism and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and still the USSR tried to destroy us. Supporting evil doesn’t instantly give immunity to destruction.

  23. #24 July 11, 2011 at 10:38 am

    cal rifkin commented:

    Useful idiots…available to a family criminal enterprise(Assad) on a moment’s notice…Probably should pull out most or all the staff(yesterday).

  24. #25 July 11, 2011 at 10:51 am

    Pickwick commented:

    How embarassing that we have a President who would tolerate this from a piss-ant like Assad.

    He should have the highest ranking Syrian diplomat he can find immediately dragged to the White House asap and tell him that if the Syrians do not clear these people out of our embassy and establish effective security within twelve hours, we will take our own measures to secure it. If not done within twelve hours, send a company of Marines to take over the Syrian Embassy (or Consulate, or whatever) and send several missiles into Bashir’s offices. If that does not do the trick, start bombing the crap out of all his bases.

    Did Obama learn nothing from the Carter debacle?

  25. #26 July 11, 2011 at 10:57 am

    Jane commented:

    Don’t expect any help from Obambi; he’s out eating his peas. lol

  26. #28 July 11, 2011 at 11:07 am

    Pat the First commented:

    Get them out of there. At least, until things settle down. A son of a family friend spent 444 days as a hostage in Tehran. We can’t have that happen again.

    Good grief . . . history is repeating itself. Are we that stupid?

  27. #29 July 11, 2011 at 11:13 am

    Celebrim commented:

    Wasn’t this an episode of West Wing?

    Here is betting that the real liberal President, does no better in handling the real situation than the fake liberal Hollywood President did handling the fake one.

    In fact, I bet it goes worse, because unlike the fake Hollywood world, a liberal doesn’t get to write the ending. In the real world, reality doesn’t go along with liberal prejudices.

    Assad has just handed us the excuse to aid the Syrian opposition (who are far more deserving of the Libyan opposition because unlike the Libyan’s, the Syrians aren’t tied to Al Queda), and repay him for the 100′s of deaths his people caused in Iraq and I’m willing to be that Obama just folds.

    Welcome back Carter. Stagflation, inflating gas prices, economic and social malaise and US embassies under attack. Too bad I see no Reagan anywhere on the horizon.

  28. #30 July 11, 2011 at 11:15 am

    11B40 commented:

    Greetings:

    So, does that second photo mean the Syrians have forgotten about the Crusades ??? Already ???

  29. #31 July 11, 2011 at 11:37 am

    Spike commented:

    You ain’t seen nothing yet Biatch!

  30. #32 July 11, 2011 at 11:44 am

    big L commented:

    How come that broad isn’t wearing a burkha? Better watch it that she dosn’t get clubbed goin’ home

  31. #33 July 11, 2011 at 11:57 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    yes, it is connected to Assad, and unfortunately, much more..

    Jihadist Doctors

    more here, and much more here..

    ==

  32. #34 July 11, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    FurryGuyJeans commented:

    #28 July 11, 2011 at 11:07 am
    Pat the First commented:

    Get them out of there. At least, until things settle down. A son of a family friend spent 444 days as a hostage in Tehran. We can’t have that happen again.

    Good grief . . . history is repeating itself. Are we that stupid?

    Americans in the aggregate may not be, but Barry and his Merry Band of Marxists sure are doing their best to lose an IQ test with a post turtle.

  33. #35 July 11, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    Mark commented:

    Government by Ivy League nitwits doesn’t seem to be working out all that well.

  34. #36 July 11, 2011 at 12:08 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Pat the First #28

    re: [Are we that stupid?]

    yes.. and not only believe so, but
    also believe the Elites count on it..

    ==

  35. #37 July 11, 2011 at 12:19 pm

    hitnrun commented:

    Ha! She’ll never forget the atrocities of Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and Gaza. How many people have Americans killed in all three of those places combined again?

    Face it: there is no peace with these people.

  36. #38 July 11, 2011 at 12:20 pm

    Jorma commented:

    I hope (really I know) that 1st SFOD-D and DevGru are on the tarmac with engines hot. Hope we don’t need ‘em.

  37. #39 July 11, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    J commented:

    It would appear they are truly unaware of our perception of THEM as murderous barbarians.

  38. #40 July 11, 2011 at 2:28 pm

    Redwine commented:

    Here’s a good account of what’s going on: http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/07/obamas-response-to-attack-on-us-embassy.html#links
    Obama’s response to attack on US embassy in Damascus: He’s going to file a lawsuit

    Barry Rubin writes:
    The French guards fired into the air, wounding two, and the demonstrators stopped. Three French embassy workers were injured. At the U.S. embassy while Syrian guards fired teargas, the U.S. Marines didn’t fire and the mob surged into the embassy breaking windows and wrecking at least part of the building for two and a half hours as Syrian security forces stood by.

    Israel Radio cites an eyewitness from the neighborhood in Damascus in which the US embassy is located who claims that four busloads of Alawites were bussed in from Tartus to attack the US embassy and that they used clubs to break down the doors.

    Why were the Marines told to hold their fire (as Barry Rubin reported)?

    Pathetic.

  39. #41 July 11, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    Redwine #40

    Embassy’s are replaceable, humans are not??

    seriously though, sounds so much like the flash mob thingy going
    on here, not to mention the SEIU shenanigans we went through..

    ALL MEANT TO PROVOKE (fitb) VIA OBAMA
    THE “IN YOUR FACE” UNIFIER TACTICS..

    ==

  40. #42 July 11, 2011 at 3:01 pm

    Old Fan commented:

    HILLARY Rodham and Barack Obama folly on display again.

    ‘SMART POWER’ told us the Monster in Syria is a reformer. They are the fools who put the Embassy folks in this dangerous environment. They are the ones who obsessed about making Israel the enemy – telling us how they can ‘deal’ with everyone.

    The Obama Administration, the Clinton State Department is an utter mess, enabling the very worst.

    Iran, Syria, North Korea, etc., are enabled, while they bomb Libya based on humanitarian excuses? And they tell us Libya is not really “war”?

    A total disaster. On par with Ms. Albright toasting the brutal Dictatorship of North Korea with champagne.

  41. #43 July 11, 2011 at 4:02 pm

    Cylon commented:

    And we, dear Muslims, will never forget up to 80 million dead Hindus, thanks to your invasions of India and hundreds of years of war against the rest of the world.

    So up yours, Muslims. Up yours. And yes, I mean all of you. You’re either with us, or you’re against us.

  43. #45 July 11, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    tommy mc donnell commented:

    the reason we are bombing in lybia and not in syria is because in lybia the protesters are a bigger enemy of the united states while in syria the government is a bigger enemy of the united states. omama’s entire policy during this arab spring has been based on figuring out which side will be a bigger enemy for the united states and then supporting that side.

  44. #47 July 12, 2011 at 12:18 am

    TeeJay commented:

    ++

    Cylon #43

    These people ,most of them, including Assad are not considered Muslims by most of Islamic sects. They belong to the Alawites which worship Ali side by side with Allah.

    ==

  45. #48 July 12, 2011 at 11:51 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    oh crap, i’m sorry GP, thought i counted six links, oh well, here’s hoping..

    re: #48

    re: “Obama’s World”

    ==

  46. #49 July 12, 2011 at 11:59 am

    bg commented:

    ++

    ps re: #48/#49

    please note the missing Jews, Hindus, etc..

    from the “Kingdom” man builds on Earth..

    ==

  47. #50 July 12, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    okay, will re-post $48 in 2 parts..

    re: #47

    ‘Alawites in the Muslim World

    uh, about those pillars..

    “…a solid foundation for the U.S. economy must be built on five pillars: new
    rules for Wall Street, new investments in education, renewable energy and
    health care and new federal budget savings to reduce debt.”

    yeah, i know 2 seem to be missing from Obama’s “five
    pillar”agenda’s    , but according to him, we also we have
    57 states right?? /s/

    this is an extemely interesting read..

    [In the penultimate scene of the play, my character crossed swords with the story’s namesake, the Christian knight Parzival. The scene reached its climax when Parzival’s blade shattered. Rather than pressing on, I (Feirefiz) courteously declared a truce. Sitting down on the grass together, we introduced ourselves and discovered that we were sons of the same father. What had begun as a clash of arms ended in a tearful embrace.

    Recent scholarship suggests that Wolfram wrote Parzival as an answer to the moral confusion of Christendom following the failure of the Third and Fourth Crusades. The narrative of Parzival and Feirefiz is a coded call to Christians and Muslims to overcome their enmity and recognize their kinship as sons of the same heavenly Father. The happy outcome of the brothers’ mutual discovery is the attainment of the Grail, the symbol of abiding spiritual peace.]

    imho it neatly connects all those loose dots as to what makes Obama tic..
    i mean, have we not been taken aback and more or less frozen as how to
    approach this messianic man spouting his “just words”.. /truth sarc/

    to be continued..

    ==

  48. #51 July 12, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    re: #51 continued..

    seriously though.. albeit seemingly more fantasy than reality,
    i truly believe it’s the other way around in “Obama’s world”..

    ==

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