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Bashar al-Assad

Those fighters, the Syrian part that you’re talking about, lost its natural incubators in the Syrian society – they don’t have incubators anymore ; that’s why they have incubators abroad.
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Political Support Talking
We don’t discuss this issue [conversations with Russia] as a government, but we discuss the repercussions, which is more important because sometimes repercussions could be more destroying than the strike itself.
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Country Government Issues
On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don’t exist all over Syria.
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Borders Cooperation Hezbollah Themselves
It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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Doe Hair Natural
As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.
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East Government Middle Proposed
You hardly find any military base in distant areas from the [Syria] cities unless it’s an airport or something like this, but most of the military bases or centers within inhabited areas.
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Airports Cities Military
It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
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Circumstances Comfortable Country Mistake
Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of course not.
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Country Order President
The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.
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Administration Chemical Congress Evidence Second
Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.
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Acknowledge Everything Happy Powerful
Syria is in a state of war since its land was occupied for more than four decades, and the nature of the frontier in Syria implies that most of the army is in inhabited areas, most of the centers are in inhabited areas.
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Army Land War
If you don’t win and the terrorists win, Syria wouldn’t exist anymore.
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Country Terrorist Winning
Circumstances don’t matter, only my state of being matters. What state of being are you choosing?
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Attitude Matter States
I’ve never heard of soft war.There’s no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
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Fighting Ruthless War
Under Syrian law, a journalist is not allowed to report on military matters. This may be wrong or right, but that’s just the way it is.
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Law May Military
People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.
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Aspect Belief People

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

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