Syria's Assad: Paris Attacks Result of French Policy
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Syrian President Bashar Assad said Saturday that French policy had contributed to the "spread of terrorism" that culminated in attacks claimed by the Islamic State group which killed 128 people in Paris.
In a meeting with a delegation of French lawmakers in Damascus, Assad said France's "mistaken policies... had contributed to the spread of terrorism."
"The terrorist attacks that targeted the French capital Paris cannot be separated from what happened in the Lebanese capital Beirut lately and from what has been happening in Syria for the past five years and in other areas," he said.
Assad was referring to twin bombings claimed by IS which killed 44 people on Thursday in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of his Lebanese ally, Hizbullah.
Assad regards all the rebel groups fighting his forces inside Syria as "terrorists", not just IS.
Assad said he had "warned against what would happen in Europe for the past three years."
"We said, don't take what is happening in Syria lightly. Unfortunately, European officials did not listen," he said, in comments to the delegation broadcast by France's Europe 1 radio.
He said French President Francois Hollande "should change his policy."
"The question that is being asked throughout France today is, was France's policy over the past five years the right one? The answer is no."
France has been a leading supporter of the Syrian opposition since soon after the outbreak of protests against Assad's rule in 2011.
It is also part of a U.S.-led coalition conducting an air war against IS in both Syria and Iraq.
It has carried out air strikes in Iraq for more than a year but extended them to Syria in September.
14 November 2015, 13:49
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Syria's Assad: Paris Attacks Result of French Policy
If that were the case one then could confidently say the Dahieh attacks were the result of Hezbollah and Iran Policies.
14 November 2015, 14:37
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"Syrian President Bashar Assad condoling Hollande: France endured on Friday the same barbaric terrorism that Syria has been experiencing for more than five years."
bashar is getting what he has planned for: playing the victim so to remain in power...
14 November 2015, 19:23
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Syria's Assad's Allies: ISIL Terrorism Result of Assad Policy
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Monday that 90 percent of foreign terrorists who infiltrate Iraq did so via Syria. Syria is being used as a staging post for insurgents to launch deadly attacks across the border. Maliki reiterated that ties with Damascus would not improve until it handed over the suspects it blames for one of two bloody attacks on government ministries in Baghdad on August 19 that killed 95 people and wounded 600."We demand that the Syrian side hand over the main people wanted in this crime" Maliki said.
Maliki also insisted that Damascus "expel the terrorists, Baathists and Takfiris who take Syria as a base to launch criminal activity inside Iraq" - Sept 01, 2009
14 November 2015, 19:23
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Syria's Assad's Allies: ISIL Terrorism Result of Assad Policy
Russian President Vladimir Putin: "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could have avoided civil war by responding more quickly to demands for political change. The country was ripe for serious changes, and the leadership should have felt that in time and started making changes. Then what is happening would not have happened" - Jun 11, 2013
14 November 2015, 19:24
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Syria's Assad's Allies: ISIL Terrorism Result of Assad Policy
Syrian VP Farouk Al-Sharaa, in an Al-Akhbar Exclusive: "At the beginning of the mobilization, the authorities begged for the appearance of a single armed person or a sniper at the top of one of the buildings. I do not deny that some of us acted as if the dialogue was unnecessary and whispered this to the leadership. So it distanced itself under the pretext that the internal and external opposition saw it as one of the regime’s charades. In the end, this finished off the political dialogue and opened the doors wide for the dialogue of bullets and guns. The drop in the number of peaceful protesters led one way or another to the rise in militants. The way events are heading will lead to an uncomfortable place where things will definitely go from bad to worse." - Dec 17, 2012
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Syria's Assad's Allies: ISIL Terrorism Result of Assad Policy
Russian President Vladimir Putin: "Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could have avoided civil war by responding more quickly to demands for political change. The country was ripe for serious changes, and the leadership should have felt that in time and started making changes. Then what is happening would not have happened" - Jun 11, 2013
14 November 2015, 19:26
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Syria's Assad's Allies: ISIL Terrorism Result of Assad Policy
Mohammad Ali Sobhani adviser in Iran’s Foreign Ministry and Iran’s former envoy to Lebanon from 1997 to 2005: "The Syrian crisis started with the detention of youths who went out protesting. This behavior continued until [the uprising] turned into a war, had the government calmed people and played its role, we would not have faced the current political and sectarian conflict in Syria" - Nov 27, 2014
15 November 2015, 01:04
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Either you are opposed to attacks on innocent civilians or you support such attacks. The are no defensible distinctions that can be made to support some attacks while condemning others.
