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Arab League hands Syria plan to end unrest

AMMAN - The Arab League handed Syrian officials a plan for ending seven months of increasingly violent unrest against President Bashar Assad's rule, and Assad told Russian Television he would cooperate with the opposition.
"We will cooperate with all political powers, both those who had existed before the crisis, and those who arose during it. We believe interacting with these powers is extremely important," Assad said in the interview on Sunday.
The United Nations says more than 3,000 people have been killed in the Syrian government's crackdown on protesters demanding political reforms and an end to Assad's rule.
Assad blames the unrest of foreign-backed armed gangs and said in the television interview there had been "hundreds of deaths among the military, police and security forces."