This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIf there is any change regarding that hope, we should ask the Syrian people, not anyone else in the world.
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In the eighties, we asked for international coalition against terrorism after the Muslim Brotherhood crisis in Syria when they started killing, of course they were defeated at that time. We asked for the same thing. So, this is a long-term policy that we base our policy on for years now.
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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This is where we can discuss the evidence [of the chemical weapons ], but he doesn’t have it. He didn’t present it because he doesn’t have it, Kerry doesn’t have it. No one in your administration has it. If they had it, they would have presented it to you as media from the first day.
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Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don’t call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.
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The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
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America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
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We are ready to cooperate in any way to achieve stability in Syria, of course taking into consideration the interest of the country, and the will of the Syrian people.
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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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[Enemies of Syria] are the enemies of the people and the enemies of God. And the enemies of God will go to hell.
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We don’t say that we don’t have it, we’re still secular in Syria, but with the time, this secularism will be eroded.
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Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that’s what happened.
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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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