White House Isn’t Buying What Syria Is Selling

On Wednesday, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and other officials hailed the arrival of a new constitution, slated to go up for a referendum later this month, but the Obama administration didn’t greet the news with much credulity or enthusiasm.

Meanwhile, a fuel pipeline was the target of an explosion in the embattled Syrian city of Homs.  —KA

AP via Google News:

Press secretary Jay Carney calls the move “quite laughable” in light of ongoing brutality by the Syrian military. He says it “makes a mockery” of the Syrian uprising.

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Smoke rises from an explosion in the Syrian city of Homs in this image from the BBC’s coverage on Wednesday.