Assad Cheered by Thousands, Vows to Defeat 'Conspiracy'
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President Bashar Assad made a rare public appearance on Wednesday, vowing to defeat a "conspiracy" against Syria a day after he blamed foreign interests for stoking months of deadly violence.
"Without a doubt we will defeat the conspiracy, which is nearing its end and will also be the end for (the conspirators) and their plans," Assad told tens of thousands of cheering supporters in the capital's central Omayyad Square.
Casually dressed in a jacket and open-necked shirt, a confident-looking Assad stood at the edge of the throng, security guards in front of him, and said: "I came here to draw from your strength. Thanks to you, I have never felt weak.
"Whoever wants to talk should come down into the street," said Assad, as he thanked his backers, many of whom were holding up his portrait or waving Syrian flags, for "supporting the institutions of the state and the army."
The United Nations estimated last month that more than 5,000 people had been killed in the crackdown on anti-regime protests that erupted in March, and many of them have been gunned down during peaceful street protests.
Damascus accuses "armed terrorist gangs" of fomenting the bloodshed.
In a speech on Tuesday, his first public appearance in months, Assad vowed to crush "terrorism" with an iron fist.
"Regional and international parties who are trying to destabilize Syria can no longer falsify the facts and events," the embattled leader said in the nearly two-hour speech.
That prompted opposition movements to accuse him of pushing the country toward civil war and world powers to accuse him of trying to shift the blame for the 10 months of bloodletting in the protests against his regime.
11 January 2012, 13:54
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The murderer's appearance reminds me of Qaddafi's last one from atop of a building. A sign of weakness no doubt..... his demise is inevitable!
11 January 2012, 14:01
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This regime like all the fallen regimes follows the policy of "Lie,lie lie and someone might believe you". I am just wondering if this guy is the only one who believes his own lies.
11 January 2012, 14:24
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When you get near the end of your life, you hallucinate...And you start to believe that everything is nice and dandy..The Giraff did not absorb yet that he is on his way to a heavy fall..
11 January 2012, 14:42
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oh look can u see jabalamal and jabalamal fan club in the crowd?
11 January 2012, 14:58
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I can see Rafic Nasrallah (3rd on the right) waiting for his paycheck :)
11 January 2012, 15:09
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Also trying to spot Wiamo...I usually spot him easily with his shiny "Ar3a", but since the time he put false hair it isn't easy anymore, became like Sherlok Holmes..LOL
11 January 2012, 15:22
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the filthy zionist information war department (FZIWD) is starting to halucinate one more time and see our photos that give them nightmares. They cannot forget about patriotic people they keep thinking about them because they are like ghost they fear.
11 January 2012, 16:33
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if you watch the video of his brief speech, you will see the flags of hizb of terror among the rowdy crowds:))))
11 January 2012, 16:38
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+ oua nabka +, as you know Syria is already democratic with a very strong popular leader as every election showed so democracy now in gulf Arab countries Iranan is not Arab so no problem there!
11 January 2012, 16:50
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Let him give the same speech in Homs, Deraa, or Hamaa. Look at the men on the stage with him. They are 100% mukhabbarat. No doubt the people on the street are too.
He is desperate. His world is collapsing.
11 January 2012, 17:04
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the fitlhy zionist information war department ... well actually, my young apprentice said it all.
lol :)
getting better every day.
11 January 2012, 17:41
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the lebanese who survived the civil war in lebanon, can forgive if no one of direct family was hurt(very rare), but never forget.......enjoy the same medicine u inflicted to bilad el arz for 30 years and 300,000 killed or handicaped.
11 January 2012, 17:49
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Just like Qaddafi,Assad will be begging for his life when rebels capture him. Time to run Bashar...your day is coming!
11 January 2012, 18:20
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This is great Syria is on the right track to civil war sweet music to my ears BOM BOM let the fun begin.Thank you
11 January 2012, 18:42
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He must be getting despirate to show up in public with this inane comment. Unless he is in negotiation with the opposition, which he is not, then this guy is saying that by one more month the protests will be over, which means that he is saying he will have liquidated all voices of opposition against his regime within the next 6 weeks. He is out of his mind.
And about that conspiracy that you can read about at Global Research Institute and its web site, the only powers keeping Assad in power are the US and Israel. They hold back the West from deposing this guy because he is key to Israeli security along its northern border. Rami Macklouf has admitted as much. And Hezbollah supports the regime that protects Israeli security. Have you not all connected the dots yet?
11 January 2012, 19:04
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flash forward to year 2212: Jabalamel junior the third is 80 years old sitting in his cool pajamas eating fool when his great grand child comes to him and says" Jiddo jabalamel junior the third, who is hafez assad junior the third? Jabalamel junior the third replies " hafez junior the third is the great grandson of bashar assad whose father was hafez assad, but why do you ask jiddo? my great grandchild replies, Jiddo, there is a woman name marie on naharnet saying assad is a dead man walking. Jabalamel junior the third utters few words only: it's ok jiddo, her great grand mother used to say the same stupidities.
11 January 2012, 19:19
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the filthy zionist information start to speak about dots, straight lines, angles, rectangles, parallel lines and geometry because they are desperate and helpless and hanging by a tree branch. They speaky speaky in circles and they think a dot is a circle. they are dizzy like a bee
11 January 2012, 19:28
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Considering how well those who collaborate with every enemy of those who consider Israel their enemy count, thousands could mean a few thousand or it could mean hundreds of thousands or thousands of thousands. m3alla2in bi 7ibal al hawa
11 January 2012, 19:57
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Oh happy happy day, guys look jabalamel's boyfriend just decided to share with you the wonderful news we at gayarab dot com by Shiites for Shiites have known for a while, they will be adopting a child. I'd say if they had a mind to share between them how open minded of them. Mabrouk ya sabeb but remember you can't take the kid and go to Tehran you know our kind is illegal there, according to Ahmadinejad The Just we don't even exist.
11 January 2012, 22:07
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excellent joke by lord fanclub :)))))
but if jabalamel junio the third will be like me he would be eating haleuwi not fool.
12 January 2012, 01:08
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the filthy zionist information war department has described their prime minister and foreign minister
12 January 2012, 02:12
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The filthy Syranian information war department is desperate to provide commentary on the comments above... And can't take other opinions seriously without calling them zionists
12 January 2012, 03:10
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Oh happy happy day, guys look jabalamel's boyfriend just decided to share with you the wonderful news we at gayarab dot com by Shiites for Shiites have known for a while, they will be adopting a child. I'd say if they had a mind to share between them how open minded of them. Mabrouk ya sabeb but remember you can't take the kid and go to Tehran you know our kind is illegal there, according to Ahmadinejad The Just we don't even exist.
12 January 2012, 09:08
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galiboun just like you take your orders from Iran/Syria,but the difference is whether you want to admit it or not Iran/Syria are on there own and even Russia will have to lean towards the US/Euro when it comes down to it.As for Church bombings and killing people outside churchs while they pray i only have to look at the Syrians/PLO and all the other grubby syrian allies that killed lebanese civilians during the war.But there is a GOD and what goes around comes around your beloved Syria and everyone else who had a hand in Killing/Raping/Kidnapping will have there time 1000 times over.Thank you
Long Live The Syrian Civil War!
12 January 2012, 18:14
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Ghaliboun what March 14 will do is get the government back. This time there won't be any so called national unity government. The government will be 100% March 14, and March 8 leaders which u love licking their asses everyday will no longer have a job. Especially that good for nothing Aoun. In any case he is an old fart bound to die soon from his old age and craziness.
13 January 2012, 04:04
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hey Habal Amel, watch the TRUE SIZE of the maseera where bashar spoke, i'm sure you like the great syrian propaganda machine lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QsXgLiepHk
13 January 2012, 09:06
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lol is that all that grub could get out to hear him sing....lol thousands where?
