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Obama to lead international assault on Syria at UN

Obama’s fleeting visit to the United Nations will not include talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he has publicly differed over the Iranian nuclear crisis.

Aides said Obama’s compressed election schedule did not allow time for a meeting, sparking Republican criticism, intensified by Obama’s comment in an interview Sunday that Israeli warnings over Iran were “noise.”

While the UN assembly is traditionally a forum for a US president to address the world, Obama’s speech this year will still have a domestic undercurrent because of Romney’s election attacks on his foreign policy.

Obama and his rival will also separately address the Clinton Global Initiative, the annual meeting of former president Bill Clinton’s humanitarian foundation.

Romney on Monday accused Obama — who Sunday spoke of “bumps in the road” following Arab Spring revolutions — of minimizing the murder of four Americans including US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens in Benghazi.

“When the president was speaking about bumps in the road he was talking about the developments in the Middle East and that includes an assassination,” Romney told NBC News.

“It includes a Muslim Brotherhood individual becoming president of Egypt, it includes Syria being in tumult, it includes Iran being on the cusp of having nuclear capability, it includes Pakistan being in commotion.”

Polls show Obama is favored over Romney to handle foreign policy, but the Democratic narrative has been complicated by events at the US consulate in Benghazi and wider anti-American fury rocking many Muslim nations.

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