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this morning. It said Libyan government denied that Gaddafi 's forces shot down an Apache helicopter (12.16). David Cameron has a claim from one of his military leaders who could jeopardize the future of Libya campaign missions RAF rejected.

13.44: Reuters has more on Jordan 's Information Minister Taher Adwan, which met today in protest against proposals to limit freedom of expression.

"We were working on democratic laws, and I was involved in the drafting of new laws that restrict freedom of expression surprised and lowers the ceiling of freedom of the press," Taher Adwan told Reuters.

Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit 's government had a new session of Parliament, sent on Wednesday, changes tightening penalties for libel and defamation begins.

Speaking at press conference Bracken repeated Nato's claim that a compound attacked on Monday was a legitimate target. Libyan officials said at least 15 civilians were killed in the attack.

Libya claimed its forces had downed an Apache helicopter (see 10.24am). Nato denied this, but it has just announced that a helicopter drone has gone down over Libya, according to a Twitter update from Reuters:

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AFP 's offices were targeted pro-government supporters last week after he reported details of an attack on the King Abdullah' s motorcade. The government denied the reports.

10.24: Libya

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An editorial in Lebanon's Daily Star said:

The reforms were promised, but in a manner so free to make such a promise of specificity seem meaningless. The world has heard before this two months ago in fact.

Confidence in Assad has fallen so low that it is now almost mandatory to verify the authenticity of his desire to make good on vows to reform question.

Turkish politicians and officials were unimpressed, according to the Turkish daily Hurriyet.

Diplomats said many of the reforms, Assad promised in line with what Ankara had already proposed to Damascus, but added that Assad 's accusation that opposition groups were with foreign powers, plotting, and the vagueness of his reform plan, were negative.

"Assad is working with these groups, so his description of the opposition is not true," a diplomatic source speaking on condition of anonymity to the Hurriyet Daily News on Monday. "This is not a declaration that a climate of confidence between rival groups could build" ...

In the meantime, President Abdullah Gul 's special adviser Er?at H?rm?zl? has controversy after consultation with Dubai-based news channel al-Arabiya caused said, has "Al-Assad called for less than a week to start to implement long-promised political reforms Syrian protesters against foreign intervention begins. "

This is the most serious and perhaps most critical crisis in four decades that the Assad family's reign has been entrenched in – and much more than a fatherly speech will be needed to put a stop to it.

Much of Assad's speech could easily have been made by Ben Ali, Mubarak or Gaddafi, writes the Guardian's diplomatic editor Julian Borger.