Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don’t accept.
BASHAR AL-ASSADWe are against any WMD, any weapons of mass destruction, whether chemical or nuclear.
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How could that army do that if it’s a family army or a sect army ? What about the rest of the country who support the government ? It’s not realistic, it doesn’t happen. Otherwise, the whole country will collapse.
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Any external support, if you want to call it support, let’s use this world, is… how to say… it’s going to be additional, but it’s not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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[It is important] to have stability and to have security, which means humanitarian equals fighting terrorists. You cannot talk about humanitarian aid and supporting the terrorists at the same time. You cannot, you have to choose.
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I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
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Any American strike will not destroy as much as the terrorists have already destroyed in Syria ; sometimes the repercussions could be many doubles the strike itself.
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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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America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
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You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.
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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.
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Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.
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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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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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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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It is natural that we should always expect an Israeli attack, even when it does not threaten.
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