Video Shows Attack on Arab League Monitors in Syria Video said to show supporters of Syria's president swarming Arab League monitors as they drove through the Syrian city of Latakia on Monday was posted online by opposition activists. The Arab League said that 11 of its monitors in Syria sustained "light" injuries on Monday during an attack "by pro-regime elements in Latakia," a northwestern port city. The episode came a day before President Bashar al-Assad delivered a mocking rebuke to the Arab League in a defiant speech. Video posted online by opposition activists showed a large crowd surrounding several white S.U.V."s. They chanted slogans, waved Syrian flags with a photograph of Mr. Assad at the center and jumped on the roof of at least one of the vehicles, which was emblazoned with what appeared to be the seal of the Arab League. The video, uploaded to an activist YouTube channel, showed at least one woman holding a sign with a picture of the Syrian president and text underneath that read: "We love you." Another video clip Syrian activists said was also recorded in Latakia, showed a similar looking, battered S.U.V. struggling along a road with at least two of its tires flattened and its windows smashed. Kuwait's official KUNA news agency first reported the attack on the group, which included monitors from Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Morocco and Algeria. That report described the assailants as "unknown protesters" and said two of the Kuwaiti observers had been injured. The Arab League quickly condemned Monday's attack, Reuters reported, and called on the Syrian government to do more to protect its observers who have been visiting cities around Syria since Dec. 26. Opposition activists have swarmed and harangued the league's monitors in Homs and other cities, confronting them with what they said was evidence of crimes by the security forces, but this appears to be the first documented instance of violence. The secretary general of the Arab League, Nabil al-Araby, said on Tuesday that observers had also come under attack from supporters of the government in Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, and "from elements considered to be members of the opposition in other areas." He added that Mr. Assad's government was ultimately responsible for the monitors" safety. In his speech, which ran more than an hour and a half, Mr. Assad lashed out at the league and vowed to crush the foreign "conspiracy" that he said had fomented the violence that has gripped Syria for nearly a year, as my colleague Anthony Shadid reports. The Arab League, which suspended Syria's membership in November over the crackdown on protesters, is assessing whether Mr. Assad's government is complying with the terms of an agreement brokered by the league. That agreement calls for withdrawing all troops and military vehicles from the streets, releasing all political prisoners and allowing monitors and foreign journalists. The observer mission has been criticized not only by supporters of Mr. Assad but also by some rights activists who doubt the effectiveness of observers to stop the violence against protesters. As my colleague Kareem Fahim reported, the head of the observer mission, Lt. Gen. Mohamed al-Dabi, is a former head of Sudan's notorious military intelligence agency who is said to have had a role in the creation of the government-backed militias known as the Janjaweed in Darfur. General Dabi has publicly dismissed or contradicted some of his own monitors" reports of violence by the Syrian government.