https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNjOqAynw20
✡ Hillary: USA Must Destroy SYRIA to Help ISRAEL Against IRAN ☪
Category: Syria Page 7 of 13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQsTdTde4qg
💣 Evidence That Trump’s Strike Against Syria Was Part of False Flag Operation
USA foreign policy is despicable and reverse-Christian!!
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UN doesn’t send experts to Idlib ‘chemical incident’ site as West & US are blocking it – Assad
The Syrian government has asked the UN to send experts to investigate the alleged chemical attack in Idlib province, but the request remains unanswered due to pressure from US and other Western countries, Syrian president Bashar Assad told Sputnik in an exclusive interview.
“We formally sent a letter to the United Nations, we asked them in that letter to send a delegation in order to investigate what happened in Khan Shaykhun,” Assad said. “Of course till this moment they didn’t send (the experts), because the West and the US blocked any delegation from coming,” he added.
Bashar Assad believes that Washington is hampering the probe because if the experts arrive in Idlib, “they will find that all their (the US) narratives about what happened in Khan Shaykhun and then the attack on Shayrat airport was a false flag, was a lie.”
“Now the only contact I think is between Russia and maybe the other countries in order to send that delegation. Till this moment, we didn’t have any positive news regarding any delegation coming,” he added.
On April 4, an alleged chemical attack killed dozens of people in the town of Khan Shaykhun in Syria’s Idlib province.
Without any investigation carried out, the US labeled Assad’s government as perpetrators and fired a barrage of Tomahawk missiles at Shayrat airbase, which it said was the source of the attack.
Russia has called for a thorough investigation of the chemical incident, which would include an on-site inspection in the rebel-held territory, before coming to any conclusions.
“Actually, since the first attack a few years ago that happened in Aleppo by the terrorists against our army, we asked the United Nations to send investigation delegation in order to prove what we said about the terrorists having gases used against our army, and later many incidents happened in that way, and they didn’t send any delegation. It’s the same now,” Assad told Sputnik.
From: Fort Russ News
The Fall of Journalism Ethics and Standards in the Corporate Press
April 18th, 2017 – Fort Russ News –
– Analysis by Samer Hussein for FRN –
While browsing through daily news reports and looking for independent and unbiased sources, it becomes clear the situation is getting worse day by day. While journalism never really was that far away from politics and propaganda, the present-day state may have reached the bottom as regards professionalism and ethics.
Merely looking at the coverage of the Syrian conflict, it becomes obvious that there are hardly any ethics or standards left, at least as regards the corporate and mainstream media outlets, some of which are even taxpayer-funded.
In the past seven years of covering the Syrian conflict, we have seen some of the biggest distortions, fabrications, lies, manipulations and falsifications of events. These include: Dead children that suddenly become alive; refugees from at least three different conflicts on at least three different continents; cardboard-made buildings that are collapsing; Al Qaeda associates who suddenly become human rights activists; American males in their 40’s posing as young and oppressed Syrian lesbians; convicted adult individuals who suddenly become little children and 7-year old girls who speak English with a proficiency of an educated adult native speaker, despite otherwise barely understanding a word of English – these are only some of the many examples from the ocean of Syria-related media hoaxes that have, for the past several years, been flooding people’s minds.
On these examples alone, a question immediately arises of how accurate and honest the reporting on other issues really is. Given how far modern journalism has gone on the Syrian issue, it is legitimate to assume that coverage of other events is not much different.
It may be true that journalism never was alien to the establishment as it was always needed for propaganda purposes, especially in the absolutist and authoritarian systems, however, one is simply amazed upon realizing that ties between journalism and the governing political powers are even closer in the so-called “free and democratic world”, where a diversity and plurality on reporting would be expected. Instead, the reports on crucial issues, namely the conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Donbass, and the foreign policies of US and NATO, are pretty much the same. Even opinionated articles, features and columns have become pretty much alike across all media.
In today’s mainstream press, the situation is even worse than it was decades ago. At least at the time of the Vietnam war, there were few honest journalists who risked their lives by traveling to the midst of the warzones and presented the world with truth, previously hidden under the blanket of lies by the ruling elites and their media parrots.
Nowadays we see less and less of these things. …
An important issue to bring up here is also the fact that such fabricated and manipulated works of journalism no longer seem to pose a problem for various regulating bodies, whose primary task is to monitor the authenticity and legitimacy of the press. Hardly any of the fabricated reports from recent years were investigated for possible law or ethics-related violations.
James Corbett – moves quickly!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkj9UCHO0Tc
The Syria Strikes: A Conspiracy Theory
From: Antiwar
Trump Has Killed Beautiful Babies in Four Countries
by Chris Ernesto, April 18, 2017
US president Donald Trump sounded sincere when he described how he felt after seeing pictures of “beautiful little babies” allegedly killed by a Syrian government chemical weapons attack on April 4.
“These heinous actions by the Assad regime cannot be tolerated,” said Trump, and hours later, the US launched nearly 60 tomahawk missiles in response to the allegations.
But what about the beautiful little babies killed by US bombs since Trump became president? Is Trump not concerned about those children because they were killed by his missiles, and not Assad’s chemical weapons?
In the first three months of his presidency, Trump has dropped bombs – and killed children – in Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. Here are a few of the instances:
- An eight-year-old girl was killed during a US raid in Yemen in January. The girl, Nora al-Awlaki, was a US citizen and the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a New Mexico-born Muslim who was killed by the Obama administration in 2011 for his purported ties to al-Qaeda. In 2015, Nora’s older brother, 16-year-old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, also an American citizen, was killed by a US airstrike in Yemen. Nora al-Awlaki was shot in the neck by members of US SEAL Team 6 as they raided houses of suspected al-Qaeda members. Several Yemeni women were also killed in the raid.
- At least 18 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in February by US airstrikes aimed at the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations. “How could women and children be Taliban?” asked a resident of Sangin, who said 11 people were killed in his brother’s house in an airstrike.
- More than 200 civilians, including 34 women and 32 children were killed in US airstrikes around Raqqa, Syria since March, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. In one incident, at least 33 civilians were killed when a US airstrike hit a school that was used as a shelter by Syrian families who were fleeing ISIS in Raqqa.
- US airstrikes in Mosul, Iraq killed up to 240 civilians, including scores of children last month when US forces dropped bombs on civilian homes in response to a handful of ISIS fighters who were using the local residents’ roofs. Munatha Jasim, who lost her four-year-old daughter, seven-year-old son, and seven other relatives when her home was destroyed, said a sniper had set up across the street from her house. “Just because one ISIS [fighter] was on our house, the [US] aircraft bombed us.” Another resident, Ali Abdulghani told the New York Times, “not all of the houses had [ISIS] on the roof … why, just because of one [ISIS], kill everyone?”
More and more people are asking for proof that Assad gassed his own people
The fact that Trump’s bombs are killing innocent people in four countries is bad enough, but his most recent rationale for bombing Syria is based on unproven claims that the Syrian government used sarin against civilians.
The only ‘evidence’ presented to the public thus far by the White House is an unclassified report in which “open-source material” and “pro-opposition social media reporting” are part of a package of information that led the Trump administration to believe with a “very high degree of confidence” that the Syrian regime carried out the sarin attacks.
So, “open-source material” and “pro-opposition social media reporting” count as intelligence? And a “very high degree of confidence” is the bar set by Trump to determine whether or not to bomb another country?
As astonishing as that seems, it hasn’t stopped the media from believing the unproven narrative, as FAIR pointed out last week: of the top 100 US newspapers, only 1 paper, the Houston Chronicle, said the attack shouldn’t have happened.
But a growing number of journalists including Stephen Cohen, Robert Parry, Gareth Porter, Justin Raimondo, Rick Sterling and former members of congress Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich have been expressing serious doubts about the White House claims.Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is demanding evidence that Assad was responsible for the attack (Gabbard was skewered by establishment Democrats for her remarks – Howard Dean said Gabbard is a “disgrace” and that she should “not be in congress.”)
Even conservative columnist Ann Coulter is questioning Assad’s culpability and the ensuing US military response:
“Assad is one of the least bad leaders in the entire Middle East. He’s not a murderous thug like Saddam, has no rape rooms, isn’t into jihad, protects Christians, and is fighting ISIS. He provided us with intelligence on al-Qaida after 9/11. He does not have crazy Islamic police slapping women around or throwing gays off buildings. (That would be our beloved ally, Saudi Arabia.)
First 5 minutes only.
EXCELLENT!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kUvach8dkg
DoD Science Advisor Debunks Gas Attack In Syria
Trump calls them animals.
This couple has more class and education in their little fingers than all of the Trumps, Clintons, Obamas, and Bushes of the world combined. They both speak four languages fluently. Dr. Bashar Al-Assad is an ophthalmologist ( eye doctor ) by training. First Lady Asma Al-Assad grew up in London and went to Oxford where she received degrees in computer science and French literature. She worked as an investment banker and was on her way to Harvard for an MBA when she was scooped up by Dr. Assad.
Syria is the only secular state in the Middle East. Christians and other minorities are protected by law and in deed. (source)
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Many of us have known for years that the Mossad/CIA runs ISIS, but this video is significant because many “Christian” Zionists respect this man, Steven Ben-DeNoon, so would find this believable because he’s saying it.
From what I’ve seen, Steven believes the Vatican is behind the NWO, not the Talmudists, which doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. But it’s politically acceptable to blame the Catholics, while it’s not to blame the Talmudists, who actually do own the media and Hollywood, the banks. They control US foreign policy and our politicians (apparently including now, Trump), etc..
The Talmudists are constantly revealed to be running the false flags, some of which have been the excuses for our reverse-Christian regime-change wars for Talmudic Israel. They have a mandate from the Talmud to subjugate and control all non-Jews — the NWO.
There is no doubt it’s not mainly the Vatican running things. In fact, there is much evidence that the Talmudists control the Vatican, like their secret societies such as Freemasonry.
To those who are “Christian” Zionists, I wrote this to a friend who supports Talmudic Israel no matter what:
Please remember that Jesus warned about the ‘leaven’ of the Pharisees, and even rebuked them directly. They wanted Jesus to lead them in their NWO, domination-of-all-others plan. Jesus also warned about the Synagogue of Satan twice in Revelation. Stephen was stoned to death when he told the Jews the truth. If we’re to follow Christ, we need to warn the people too. Many “Christians” follow a misinterpretation of Genesis 12:3 instead of Jesus’ greatest two commandments and His declaration that Christians would be peacemakers, not warmongers. I believe “Christian” Zionism is one of the main deceptions that is keeping the revival from happening. We need to have clean hands and pure hearts, drawing near to God so He will draw near to us.
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BREAKING!!! Israel Embedded With Isis in Mosul
It has been speculated that Mosul will take until around the end of December to conquer.
Many suspect more than 30,000 deaths will result. According to an anonymous inside source, Intelligence reports that many of the Isis leaders speak Hebrew!
Members of the Iraqi army are reporting that the first refugees are swearing that at least 10 Isis leaders spoke Hebrew to each other and also had Israeli walkie talkies, guns and cell phones. Our source says they also spoke Arabic, but with a strong israeli accent. However, none of the mainstream western media is mentioning any of this.
These “leaders” left 5 days ago, and met no resistance from either Iraqi, Turkish, or US forces.
What nobody knows is that Iran is helping to drive Isis out, and it’s clear Isis is supported and led by Israelis and the CIA, while being helped by Saudis. Meanwhile, Turks Isis leadership will be situated in Istanbul by mid-December and Kurds and Iraqi’s are so upset by this, they plan to demand Turkey have no part of the Mosul campaign.
We will continue to update as we get more information from our sources.
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Israeli News Live video segment — Steven Ben-DeNoon:
https://www.facebook.com/1516542635284702/videos/1919247215014240
Related:
And Syria’s “civil” war is actually an invasion — a covert, Mossad/CIA regime-change invasion through paid, ISIS mercenaries.
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“Civil war is pretty awful. Our dictator, who is now a hero, Abraham Lincoln, did things that were pretty terrible, that have been forgotten by history. … So before we rush to judgment, we better think about history: ‘those who do not know their history are condemned to repeat it.'”
– Michael Savage 4/13/17
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske
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Lincoln/Assad monologue 0:00-7:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53HyoNwuMg4
The Savage Nation- Michael Savage- April 13, 2017 Full Show
Mossad and CIA started a ‘civil’ war in Syria through ISIS for the Greater Israel Project and the Talmudic NWO plan.
We are the butchers — as in our other reverse-Christian, regime-change wars, covert and overt.
TalmudVision (TV) is controlled by the god of this world, including Fox News, leading people astray, instead of into the truth.
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I STAND WITH ASSAD.
Assad supports all faiths, protects all churches, treats all equally, and fights terrorism.
In my book, that’s a good leader.
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Mossad and CIA support these rebels to destroy beautiful Syria for Talmudic Israel.
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Mimi Al Laham writes in her Facebook post of this video:
Full sequence of events leading up to and during Suicide attack on civilian buses in #Rashideen which killed 155 ppl and 68 people.
– 4 months ago the ‘rebels’ bombed the previous bus convoy that was meant to evacuate civilians from the town of Fuah. They Promised to do it again “The shi’ites won’t leave here but as corpses”
– Yesterday, second bus convoy was bombed, 150 people, 200 injured, killed 68 were children.
– Witnesses say a rebel truck loured as many children as it could in with potato crisps.
– The media has been completely silent, refusing to blame AlQaeda and even try to imply it was Assad.
– No international condemnation for these “beautiful babies”.
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Rebels Promised To Bomb Buses Evacuating Shi’ite Civilians
Ron Paul: ‘Zero Chance’ Assad Behind Syria Chemical Weapons Attack
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From: Gallup.com
APRIL 10, 2017
US Support for Syria Strikes Rates Low in Historical Context
- 10 other military actions assessed since 1983 had majority support
- Only action with lower approval was Libya in 2011, at 47%
- 82% of Republicans approve, compared with 33% of Democrats
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ support for the military strikes against Syria last week is historically low compared with reactions to previous U.S. military actions. Fifty percent of Americans approve of the missile airstrikes, while 41% disapprove. Ten percent have no opinion.
Over Eight in 10 Republicans Approve
Reactions to the missile strikes President Donald Trump ordered are much more positive among Republicans (82%) than among Democrats (33%) nationwide.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz69rsXNcJE
Assad: Alleged chemical attack was ‘100 percent fabrication’
“It’s a military takeover of America.” – Gerald Celente
“He’s another Obama. He lied his way into office.” – Gerald Celente
Is Trump a hustler, and he conned us the whole way?
Related:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD-i8dNxFvs
Jeff Rense & Gerald Celente – Chocolate Cake, *ssholes, And ‘It’s Fun To Shoot People’
Posted on April 12, 2017
Trump’s Syria Attack Trampled Many Laws
Exclusive: As the U.S. mainstream media hails President Trump’s missile strike on Syria, there has been almost no attention to either the truth about its justification or the myriad of laws violated in its execution, writes Marjorie Cohn.
By Marjorie Cohn
With 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles, each armed with over 1,000 pounds of explosives, Donald Trump went from scoundrel-in-chief to national hero, virtually overnight. The corporate media, the neoconservatives and most of Congress hailed Trump as strong and presidential for lobbing bombs into Syria, reportedly killing seven civilians and wounding nine. …
Philip Giraldi, former CIA officer and director of the Council for the National Interest, stated on the Scott Horton show that “military and intelligence personnel” in the Middle East, who are “intimately familiar” with the intelligence, call the allegation that Assad or Russia carried out the attack a “sham.” … Moreover, Giraldi noted, “Assad had no motive for doing this.”
Journalist Robert Parry concurs: “Assad’s military had gained a decisive advantage over the rebels and he had just scored a major diplomatic victory with the Trump administration’s announcement that the U.S. was no longer seeking ‘regime change’ in Syria. The savvy Assad would know that a chemical weapon attack now would likely result in U.S. retaliation and jeopardize the gains that his military had achieved with Russian and Iranian help.” …
Trump’s Missile Attack Was Illegal
Two days after Trump’s bombing occurred, the President sent a letter to congressional leaders informing them of his attack on Syria. The War Powers Resolution, passed in the wake of the Vietnam War, requires that the President report to Congress within 60 days of initiating the use of military force.
The resolution, however, allows the President to introduce U.S. Armed Forces into hostilities or imminent hostilities in only three situations: First, after Congress has declared war, which has not happened in this case; second, in “a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces,” which has not occurred; third, when there is “specific statutory authorization,” which there is not. …
Regarding international law, the United Nations Charter prohibits the “use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” There are only two exceptions: when conducted in self-defense after an armed attack, or with the approval of the Security Council.
Syria had not attacked the United States or any other country before Trump ordered the missile strike. “The use of chemical weapons within Syria is not an armed attack on the United States,” said Notre Dame law professor Mary Ellen O’Connell. And the Security Council had not approved Trump’s attack. It therefore violated the Charter. In fact, under the U.N. Charter, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would have a valid self-defense claim since the U.S. initiated an armed attack on Syria.
So, Trump committed an illegal act of aggression against Syria when he lobbed his missiles. According to U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3314, an “act of aggression” is the use of armed force by a state against the sovereignty, territorial integrity, or political independence of another state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Charter. As stated above, Trump’s attack constituted an unlawful use of force under the Charter. …
Trump’s new-found humanitarian concerns, including his lament about the terrible fate of Khan Sheikhoun’s “small children and even beautiful little babies,” also stand in contrast to the horrific death toll from other U.S.-allied bombings in recent weeks. The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria killed nearly 1,000 non-combatants in March alone, “a record claim,” according to Airwars.org, a non-profit organization that monitors civilian casualties from airstrikes in the Middle East. “These reported casualty levels are comparable with some of the worst periods of Russian activity in Syria,” the group said.
The coalition forces’ use of white phosphorous, a chemical weapon that burns to the bone, has been documented in Mosul, Iraq. And the U.S. Central Command confirmed that it has used depleted uranium, arguably a war crime, against ISIS in Syria.
Encouraging Trump to Use Military Force
Trump is obsessed with being liked. So, smarting from the healthcare loss and attacked by the media, the GOP’s right-wing and Democrats, Trump turned the tables. Now that he’s become Bomber-in-Chief, Trump is liked by nearly everybody – or so it seems. And what lesson will he learn from his missile attack? That being a strong, forceful leader makes people like you. And blowing things up makes you a “strong, forceful leader.” …
Trump’s missile attack also has put a dangerous strain on U.S. relations with nuclear-armed Russia, which supports the Assad regime in the conflict with various opposition groups, including Al Qaeda’s affiliate and its spinoff, Islamic State or ISIS. …
With his missile attack, Trump has made the world a much more dangerous place. “Make no mistake,” Norman Solomon wrote. “With 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons at the ready in the United States and Russia, pushing to heighten tensions between the two countries is playing with thermonuclear fire.” …
Trump’s missile attack on Syria makes the United States vulnerable to retaliation from other countries that see the U.S. violating international law and committing acts of aggression.
This report provides unambiguous evidence that the White House Intelligence Report (WHR) of April 11, 2017 contains false and misleading claims that could not possibly have been accepted in any professional review by impartial intelligence experts.
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Video Evidence of False Claims Made in the White House Intelligence Report of April 11, 2017
By Theodore A. Postol, professor emeritus of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT. Postol’s main expertise is in ballistic missiles. He has a substantial background in air dispersal, including how toxic plumes move in the air. Postol has taught courses on weapons of mass destruction – including chemical and biological threats – at MIT. Before joining MIT, Postol worked as an analyst at the Office of Technology Assessment, as a science and policy adviser to the chief of naval operations, and as a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory. He also helped build a program at Stanford University to train mid-career scientists to study weapons technology in relation to defense and arms control policy. Postol is a highly-decorated scientist, receiving the Leo Szilard Prize from the American Physical Society, the Hilliard Roderick Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Richard L. Garwin Award from the Federation of American Scientists.
This is my third report assessing the White House intelligence Report of April 11, 2017. My first report was titled A Quick Turnaround Assessment of the White House Intelligence Report Issued on April 11, 2017 about the Nerve Agent Attack in Khan Shaykhun, Syria and my second report was an Addendum to the first report.
This report provides unambiguous evidence that the White House Intelligence Report (WHR) of April 11, 2017 contains false and misleading claims that could not possibly have been accepted in any professional review by impartial intelligence experts. The WHR was produced by the National Security Council under the oversight of the National Security Advisor, Lieutenant General H. R. McMaster.
We again have a situation where the White House has issued an obviously false, misleading and amateurish intelligence report.
The Congress and the public have been given reports in the name of the intelligence community about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, technical evidence supposedly collected by satellite systems that any competent scientists would know is false, and now from photographs of the crater that any analyst who has any competent at all would not trust as evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkj9UCHO0Tc
The Syria Strikes: A Conspiracy Theory
Here is the guy @ 27:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ottC-2QbTIo
10 REASONS TRUMP’S ATTACK ON SYRIA WAS A BAD IDEA & BASED ON LIES — James Perloff
“He’s [Assad] protecting the Christians. Nobody checks with the Syrian Christians over there. They are terrified of Assad being taken out, because they will be wiped off the face of the earth. So we are now staging sort of a reverse-crusade where we help wipe out Christianity in the Middle East.”
– Ann Coulter @ 7:40
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVImjro5wxM
Coulter talking with Zeoli about Trump & Syria
Fox News guy in full attack mode!
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“Why are we helping ISIS?!!”
Kucinich: No evidence Assad was behind chemical attacks
Sean Spicer’s Freudian Slip: TRUMP’S GOAL IS TO “DESTABILIZE SYRIA”
Transcript of exclusive AFP interview with Syria’s Assad
13 Apr 2017
Damascus: In the following AFP interview with Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, the questions were asked in English and he replied in English.
Question 1: Did you give an order to strike Khan Sheikhun with chemical weapons last Tuesday?
President Assad: Actually, no one has investigated what happened that day in Khan Sheikhun till the moment. As you know, Khan Sheikhun is under the control of Al-Nusra Front, which is a branch of Al-Qaeda, so the only information the world have had till this moment is published by Al-Qaeda branch. No one has any other information. We don’t know if the whole pictures or videos that we’ve been seeing are true or fabricated. That’s why we asked for investigation to what happened in Khan Sheikhun. This is first.
Second, Al-Qaeda sources said that the attack happened at 6, 6:30 in the morning, while the Syrian attack in the same area was around noon, between 11:30 to 12. So they’re talking about two different stories or events. So there was no order to make any attack, we don’t have any chemical weapons, we gave up our arsenal a few years ago. Even if we have them, we wouldn’t use them, and we have never used our chemical arsenal in our history.
Question 2: So what happened this day?
President Assad: As I said, the only source is Al-Qaeda, we cannot take it seriously. But our impression is that the West, mainly the United States, is hand-in-glove with the terrorists. They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack. It wasn’t an attack because of what happened in Khan Sheikhun. It’s one event. Its stage one is the play that we saw on the social networking and on TVs, and the propaganda, and the stage two is the military attack. That’s what we believe is happening because it’s only (a) few days — two days, 48 hours — between the play and the attacks, and no investigations, no concrete evidence about anything. The only thing were allegations and propaganda, and then (the) strike.
Question 3: So who, according to you, is responsible about this alleged chemical attack?
President Assad: The allegation itself was by Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra Front, so we don’t have to investigate who. They announced it, it’s under their control, no one else. About the attack, as I said, it’s not clear whether it happened or not, because how can you verify a video? You have a lot of fake videos now, and you have the proof that those videos were fake, like the White Helmets for example. They are Al-Qaeda. They are Al-Nusra Front who shaved their beards, wore white hats, and appeared as humanitarian heroes, which is not the case. The same people were killing Syrian soldiers, and you have the proof on the internet anyway. So the same thing for that chemical attack. We don’t know whether those dead children were killed in Khan Sheikhun. Were they dead at all? Who committed the attack if there was an attack? What’s the material? You have no information at all, nothing at all, no one investigated.
Question 4: So you think it’s a fabrication?
President Assad: Definitely, a hundred percent for us, it’s fabrication. We don’t have an arsenal, we’re not going to use it. And you have many indications if you don’t have proof, because no one has concrete information or evidences, but you have indications. For example, less than two weeks, around ten days before that attack, the terrorists were advancing in many fronts, including the suburbs of Damascus and Hama, which is not far from Khan Sheikhun. Let’s suppose we have this arsenal, and let’s suppose that we have the will to use it, why didn’t we use it when we were retreating and the terrorists were advancing? Actually, the timing of that attack — or alleged attack — was when the Syrian army was advancing very fast, and actually the terrorists were collapsing. So why to use it, if you have it and if you have the will? Why to use it at that timing, not when you were in a difficult situation, logically? This is first.
Second, if you want to use it, if you have it and if you want to use it — again, this is if we suppose — why to use it against civilians, not to use it against the terrorists that we are fighting? Third, in that area, we don’t have army, we don’t have battles, we don’t have any, let’s say, object in Khan Sheikhun, and it’s not a strategic area. Why to attack it? What’s the reason? Militarily, I’m talking from a military point of view. Of course, the foundation for us, morally, we wouldn’t do it if we have it. We wouldn’t have the will, because morally this is not acceptable. We won’t have the support of the public. So every indication is against the whole story, so you can say that this play that they staged doesn’t hold together. The story is not convincing by any means.
Question 5: With the US airstrike, Trump seems to have changed his position on you and Syria drastically. Do you have the feeling that you lost what you have called a potential partner?
President Assad: I said “if”. It was conditional. If they are serious in fighting terrorists, we’re going to be partners. And I said not only the United States — whoever wants to fight the terrorists, we are partners. This is basic for us — (a) basic principle, let’s say. Actually, what has been proven recently, as I said earlier, that they are hand-in-glove with those terrorists, the United States and the West, they’re not serious in fighting the terrorists, and yesterday some of their statesmen were defending ISIS. They were saying that ISIS doesn’t have chemical weapons. They are defending ISIS against the Syrian government and the Syrian army. So actually, you cannot talk about partnership between us who work against the terrorists and who fight the terrorism and the others who are supporting explicitly the terrorists.
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Question 7: But do you think that there will be another attack?
President Assad: As long as the United States is being governed by this complex of military industrial complex, the financial companies, banks, and what you call deep regime, and works for the vested interest of those groups, of course. It could happen anytime, anywhere, not only in Syria.