WHITFIELD: And Mohammed, still unclear who is responsible for this. The Syrian government is denying that its forces carried out the attack, yet the government is placing blame as well.</s>JAMJOOM: The Syrian government today flatly denying they had anything to do with this. Even though more and more in the international community and within Syria blaming them directly. A spokesperson for the foreign ministry earlier today said that this was a tsunami of lies. It was directed at the Syrian government. Here's more of what he had to say.</s>WHITFIELD: And the U.N. special envoy, Kofi Annan, is scheduled to visit Syria tomorrow. We know Mohammed, that the peace plan that he brokered two months ago has not been working. So what are his hopes this time?</s>JAMJOOM: Fredricka, since this peace plan was announced, we have heard from opposition activists that over 1,600 people have been killed at that time since March. So there's not a lot of hope on the ground in Syria. This can really do anything to stop the violence, whether it's U.N. monitors there as they are now, or Arab League monitors as they were on the ground there a few months ago. Nothing has seemed to impact the seemingly endless cycle of violence going on there. This brutal crackdown committed against the Syrian people which has left, according to U.N. estimates, over 9,000 people killed since the uprising began some 15 months ago. Fredricka.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Mohammed Jamjoom, thanks so much from Beirut. All right. First the Vatican accused U.S. nuns of promoting radical feminist themes. Well now the nuns are getting ready to respond.
International Community Condemns Syria Massacre