The opposition dismissed the vote as a ploy by the regime to buy time and derail the international community from its serious commitment to civil war.
The new 24-hour Arabic-language channel, Sky News Arabia, a joint venture between Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahayan, owner of the English football club Manchester City, and British broadcaster BSkyB, owned by phone-hacking enabler Rupert Murdoch, described the events in Syria as "a hopeful precedent towards regime change."
Sky News Arabia -- which boasts an impartial "editorial advisory committee" including two members from the stable of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp -- has promised to outmaneuver Qatar-based al-Jazeera into depicting the Assad regime as "worse than Hitler."
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