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<blockquote data-quote="klein" data-source="post: 925214" data-attributes="member: 23950"><p><strong>CBC News arrived in Damascus today (first foreign journalist allowed into Iran) - watching CBC as I type this !</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>The CBC's Susan Ormiston, who arrived in Damascus earlier Tuesday, reported on CBC's News Network that she found people there intensely interested in Assad's speech. </p><p>"Everywhere we stopped on our way into Damascus, people were huddled around their TV sets, watching the long address from the president. He has not been all that public in the last few weeks … talking very rarely." </p><p>After months of closing Syria to outsiders, the regime has decided to allow a few teams of outside journalists into the country, and two CBC correspondents are among them. </p><p>However, the regime keeps a close eye on foreign reporters, assigning minders to all foreign journalists. </p><p>CBC's Margaret Evans reported from Damascus Tuesday. </p><p>She also noted that a pro-government protest was underway when the CBC News team arrived at its lodgings. </p><p>"We turned up at our hotel and there was, rather conveniently, a small demonstration of people in front of the hotel — pro-Assad supporters basically echoing what he was talking about in his speech," she said.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klein, post: 925214, member: 23950"] [B]CBC News arrived in Damascus today (first foreign journalist allowed into Iran) - watching CBC as I type this ! [/B] The CBC's Susan Ormiston, who arrived in Damascus earlier Tuesday, reported on CBC's News Network that she found people there intensely interested in Assad's speech. "Everywhere we stopped on our way into Damascus, people were huddled around their TV sets, watching the long address from the president. He has not been all that public in the last few weeks … talking very rarely." After months of closing Syria to outsiders, the regime has decided to allow a few teams of outside journalists into the country, and two CBC correspondents are among them. However, the regime keeps a close eye on foreign reporters, assigning minders to all foreign journalists. CBC's Margaret Evans reported from Damascus Tuesday. She also noted that a pro-government protest was underway when the CBC News team arrived at its lodgings. "We turned up at our hotel and there was, rather conveniently, a small demonstration of people in front of the hotel — pro-Assad supporters basically echoing what he was talking about in his speech," she said. [/QUOTE]
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