<p>   u00a0</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   Washington also accused Moscow of telling &lsquo;untruths&rsquo; about the use of its arms shipments.</div>  <div>   u00a0</div>  <p class="caption">   <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/syria-unrest.jpg" style="border-width: 4px; border-style: solid; width: 500px; height: 375px; " /><br />   Smoke rising from a residential area of Talbisah in Homs city. Photo: AFP</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &ldquo;We have confronted the Russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to Syria,&rdquo; the Telegraph quoted Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, as saying.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &ldquo;They have, from time to time, said that we shouldn&rsquo;t worry, everything they are shipping is unrelated to their [the Syrian government&rsquo;s] actions internally. That&rsquo;s patently untrue,&rdquo; Clinton said.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &ldquo;And we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from Russia to Syria, which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically,&rdquo; she added.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   According to the paper, Clinton issued the warning as United Nations peace monitors were fired on after trying to enter a besieged town that the US fears is a target of the regime for a new massacre.</div>  

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