Obama: Congress & Syria?

Any Twitter accounts that any of you follow that you've found has useful info on this situation?

If you want to follow all of the Tweets by the people below, Subscribe to the Syria List @Mashable has created and that way you don't have to go follow all of the people below individually unless you want to.

13 Reliable Sources to Follow on Twitter for Syria News
By Fran Berkman
22 hours ago

Since violence erupted in March 2011, more than 100,000 people have lost their lives, according to UN estimates from June. Up-to-the-minute information about the conflict isn't widely available as the war-torn country is an especially dangerous place for journalists; 50 have died since the beginning of 2011 — far more than in any other country during the same time period, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

However, there are a few outlets that have been covering the war since the beginning, and they will be crucial for information if the U.S. or its allies do issue a military strike. Here's a list of Twitter users — some embedded in the country, others covering the conflict from the outside — to follow for reliable information about Syria.

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1. Jeremy Bowen , BBC
2. Sam Dagher , The Wall Street Journal
3. The U.S. Embassy in Syria
4. Liz Sly , The Washington Post
5. C.J. Chivers , The New York Times
6. Tracey Shelton , Global Post
7. Martin Chulov , The Guardian
8. Lina Sinjab , BBC
9. Mahir Zeynalov , Today's Zaman
10. David Kenner , Foreign Policy
11. Noah Shachtman , Foreign Policy
12. Rania Abouzeid , Freelance Journalist
13. Hassan Hassan , The National (UAE)

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I will bite. Is there any way to do this without having a Twitter account?

Nope - you have to come to the dark side and join Twitter! lol It's better than FB though - it doesn't ask you for nearly as much info, which is why the US gov't doesn't pester them for member data nearly as much as it does FB .
(Crap, we need a thumbs-up emoticon...gotta move that up on the to-do list).