The Arab League on Tuesday called for an emergency meeting to discuss the mission of group's monitors in Syria, an Arab official said. The meeting will take place Saturday in Cairo, where the Arab League is based. The Arab League's deputy secretary-general, Ahmed bin Heli, said the meeting will look into the first report by the head of the monitoring mission, which began Dec. 27. The Saturday meeting will not make a final decision, but will send its recommendations to another, high-level ministerial meeting. No date was set for that meeting, according to a report of the Associated Press. There are about 100 Arab League monitors in Syria, dispatched to verify the Syrian regime's compliance with an Arab League plan to stop its crackdown on a 9-month-old uprising.
