The captain doesn’t think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship.
BASHAR AL-ASSADIf the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don’t know. I’m not a fortuneteller to tell you what’s going to happen.
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You can forge anything these days, and we’re living in a fake news era.
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The armament of the government is legal armament. Any other armament is not legal.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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I think sadness prevails in Syria now. We don’t feel anything else but sadness because we have this killing every day, whether with chemical or any other kind.
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Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army – or outside the government and army.
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Al-Qaeda has one ideology and they go back to the same leadership in Afghanistan or in Syria or in Iraq. That’s the question. You have tens of thousands of foreigners, that’s definitely correct. We are fighting them on the ground and we know this.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That’s another question.
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Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That’s crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday; for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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Even a president makes mistakes.
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From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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[United States] are sovereign country, they are an independent country, but this is their limit; they don’t have to interfere in any other country.
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We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call “free Syrian army.” That’s what we said.
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And let’s say in brief they live the Taliban style in Afghanistan, completely the same style.
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You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there’s killing and destruction on daily basis.
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Anyone who’s not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you’re advancing ?
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