AMMAN (Reuters) – The United States and European Union called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down on Thursday and President Barack Obama accused him of “torturing and slaughtering” his own people in what U.N. officials said could be crimes against humanity. It was a dramatic sharpening of international rhetoric — major states had urged Assad to reform rather than resign. But with no threat of Western military action like that against Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, the five-month-old conflict between Assad and his opponents seems likely to grind on in the streets. Putting faith in sanctions rather than force, Obama ordered Syrian government assets in the United States frozen, banned…
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