We didn’t say that 80% [of terrorists], for example, or the majority or the vast majority, are foreigners. We said the vast majority are Al-Qaeda or Al-Qaeda offshoot organizations in this region.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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In any war, people will pay the price.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn’t mean that people hate me.
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The majority of fighters now are Al-Qaeda. If you want to support them, you are supporting Al-Qaeda, you are creating havoc in the region, and if this region is not stable, the whole world cannot be stable.
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Because of this interference for the last fifty years, that’s why they are very good only in creating problems, not in solving problems. That’s the problem with the American role.
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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Something that many officials in the West don’t see or don’t realize or don’t acknowledge – and in the interest of the Russian people, because they have been facing terrorists for decades now.
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I cannot afford to make mistakes.
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When you’re in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you’re quitting your country and this is treason.
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Nobody knows [who they are] because when [terrorists] are dead and they are killed, they don’t have any ID.
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We always say we have wishful thinking that the Unites States would be unbiased, respect the international law, doesn’t interfere in other countries around the world, and of course to stop supporting terrorists in Syria.
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The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That’s the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don’t throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don’t have any clue yet.
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Israel does not care about the international public opinion.
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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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I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.
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