BEIRUT – Syrian troops fired on mourners at a funeral and raided an eastern city yesterday, killing at least 69 people in an intensifying government crackdown on protesters. Outrage was intensifying as well: Syria’s Arab neighbors forcefully joined the international chorus of condemnation against President Bashar Assad’s regime for the first time. Even the king of Saudi Arabia – whose country does not tolerate dissent and lent its military troops to repress antigovernment protests in neighboring Bahrain – harshly criticized the Syrian government and said he was recalling his ambassador in Damascus for consultations. More than 300 people have died in the past week, the bloodiest in the…
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