General Robert Mood quit and returned to Norway

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Norwegian Army former Chief of Staff Major-General Robert Mood, 54, who was nominated to head the UN monitors in Syria that will oversee the truce between army and the rebels quit and returned to Norway, Al Arabiya TV reported .

The spokesman of UN and Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan confirmed that General Mood has left and returned to Noorway.

Six United Nations observers arrived in the capital of Syria on Sunday night to begin monitoring a cease-fire even as violence continued in parts of the country, further fraying the peace plan.

“They’ve arrived and they will start work tomorrow morning,” Kieran Dwyer, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping department, told Agence France-Presse news agency.

The monitors are arriving ahead of a larger group, possibly as many as 250 observers, that could be authorized by Wednesday.

At least 25 people were killed in Syria on Sunday as raids and shooting at demonstrations continued, with 12 of the deaths occurring in Homs, the antigovernment Local Coordination Committees said.

“There are people and observers coming to visit, but the regime doesn’t care,” said Yazan, an activist in the Khaldiyeh neighborhood of Homs who requested that his full name not be given for safety’s sake. “They will keep pounding the city until the observers come to Homs, then they will stop.”

Yazan likened the U.N. mission to the failed Arab League monitoring effort of several months ago, which he described as “talks only and a waste of time.”

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6 responses to “General Robert Mood quit and returned to Norway”

  1. antar2011 Avatar
    antar2011

    he already left?..el 3ama…he has see nothing yet…. he probably is saying to himself i am old and retired i don’t have to deal with this! so off i go….poor bugger…poor other observers they will get the shock of their lives i am just disappointed by the security coucil who insisted they were to be sent even if it was obvious Assad was not keeping his to his words.

  2. antar2011 Avatar
    antar2011

    he already left?..el 3ama…he has see nothing yet…. he probably is saying to himself i am old and retired i don’t have to deal with this! so off i go….poor bugger…poor other observers they will get the shock of their lives i am just disappointed by the security coucil who insisted they were to be sent even if it was obvious Assad was not keeping his to his words.

  3. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    An honorable man with an honorable career in an honorable country… 5 minutes into talks with the assad stooges, their conditions, their veiled threats… and the man knew where it was going to lead.
    He obviously did not want to be responsible for giving more time to assad to kill more people and probably kill a couple of his own observers.

  4. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    An honorable man with an honorable career in an honorable country… 5 minutes into talks with the assad stooges, their conditions, their veiled threats… and the man knew where it was going to lead.
    He obviously did not want to be responsible for giving more time to assad to kill more people and probably kill a couple of his own observers.

  5. banquo21 Avatar

    It is not for the general to comment, best left to the UN, they were the one who appointed him.

  6. banquo21 Avatar

    It is not for the general to comment, best left to the UN, they were the one who appointed him.

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