Assad Thanks Russia for Helping Syria Face Down 'Savage Attack'
Syrian President Bashar Assad on Wednesday thanked key backer Russia for helping his regime face down a "savage attack" by Western-backed rebels, state television reported.
Russia is helping "create... a new global balance", Assad said, after Moscow opposed the use of force should the Damascus regime refuse to abide by an agreement to hand over its chemical weapons stockpile.
Assad's statement came during a meeting with Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
"President Assad expressed... his gratitude to Russia for its position of helping Syria face down the savage attack... and the Western, regional and Arab-backed terrorism," he said, using the regime's term for the armed revolt in the country.
Ryabkov, who flew in to Damascus on Tuesday, accused U.N. inspectors investigating chemical attacks in Syria of being "biased and one-sided".
Russia has received "evidence that the rebels are implicated in the chemical attack," Ryabkov was quoted as saying by the RIA Novosti and ITAR-TASS news agencies.
Damascus flatly denies using chemical weapons against opposition areas, and instead blames rebels for such attacks.
Also on Wednesday, Assad criticized U.S. policy on Syria during a meeting with American personalities opposed to Western intervention in the conflict.
State news agency SANA, which said the team was made up of former members of Congress, journalists and peace activists, quoted Assad as saying that U.S. policy in the Middle East was concentrated on "imposing its hegemony on the people of the region".
This policy "does not reflect the American people's interests and goes against (their) values and interests", Assad added.
More than 110,000 people have been killed in Syria's 30-month civil war, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
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عون
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I don't think that God listens to al-Qaeda supporters.
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lol israel sent 300 lobbyists from AIPAC to the US congress to push for the war on Syria, but Russia wanted to preserve israel despite itself, so it opposed it. Walla, Putin plus royaliste que le roi!
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you make less and less sense benzo, i think you're losing it man. seek some help.
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Mort de rire! The first zionist was Bachar's grandfather in when he wrote to French Prime Minister Leon Blum. The Original document is framed at the Matignon.
Israelis are like Americans, they're divided. Do they want to keep this protection from Bachar and cadeau of the Golan heights at the expense of the dictator butchering his own people?
They've a conscience.... Unlike hezbi terrorists and acolytes!
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always shining israeli shoes i see :) try with more tongue :)
in the mean time, see what the israeli ambassador in czech republic said:
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/israel-doubts-syria-s-readiness-to-give-up-chemical-weapons/982602
"Koren said Israel´s strategic goal in the current crisis is an end of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad´s regime, which would weaken the Damascus-Tehran-Hezbollan axis that is the most dangerous according to Israel."
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Mowaten, I've called it! Replacing Al-Assad with someone less sympathetic to Iran and preventing a liaison in terms of logistics to Hizbullah oversteps the risk of the Golan trying to be reclaimed since nobody dares challenge Israel anymore.
http://www.jpost.com/Syria-Crisis/Oren-Jerusalem-has-wanted-Assad-ousted-since-the-outbreak-of-the-Syrian-civil-war-326328
Some ex-ambassador said he'd prefer Al-Qaida over the Assad regime as well.
Benzona, he wasn't a hardline zionist, but pro-zionist because of the perceived threat of the Alawites being massacred at the hands of uncertainty back in the day when France was to expand the Tartus governorate to expand to the whole of Syria. He's plea was understandable.
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*his
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Movvaten, if your links are infested with spywares like FT's from last week, I'd rather not open them!
I'm not shining anyone's shoes. I'm just saying that some people have a conscience, others don't. C'est la morale de l'histoire.
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Russia and previously the USSR were and still are the birth place of democracy and freedom of speech. Russia once again has proven its patriotic stances with impoverished nations that refuse to submit to the zionist american schemes. A new global inter-galactic balance has been established which includes: The Islamic Iranian Resistance aka HA (Hussain Army), The Abal Abbas Iraqi Shia only warriors, The Syrian Baath regime, and The Islamic Republic of Iran, General Michel Aoun, and MP Talal Arslan. Together, this new world power will stand up and face down any American French Zionist adventures to eliminate the christians and force them to immigrate on slave ships to Europe. A new alliance is born; A new dawn is upon us; God bless "those" who support the resistance!
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Xanax is used to treat anxiety and panic disorder...so people who see or hear the general take directly two pills so you don't be suicidal such as benzona's profile clip :)
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The perpetrator of a savage attack asks mercy when a savage attack is pending. It is interesting. What would have happened had the defenseless civilians who Assad gassed asked for mercy from the pending savage attack that Assad unleashed? Would Assad have shown mercy? Would he have relented? Those worthy of mercy are those who have extended mercy to others.
Assad deserves no mercy.
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As to Farts 14 and Sanni First, they have nobody to thank. USS Cole never showed up. Neither did the other two destroyers, USS John McCain and USS Joseph Lieberman. The strike never came either, and the "ASSad" regime is pummeling al-Qaeda wa akhawatiha at a rapid pace. Cheikh Saad al-Haribi Telteyn al-Marajil will not come to Lebanon anytime soon. Bandar Bin Sultan is in a deep depression and might soon vanish into deep space. The Erd and his Oglu are screaming in the wilderness. yalla 3anater. t3isho wa teklo ghayra. Or, as GabbyMarch14 incessantly says, wait until next Wednesday for another fall of the "ASSad" regime. Bye bye.
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i don't know nowadays if this vague of changing regimes the main objective is democracy n people's freedom, why we don't hear about ksa or all golf regimes?
i am with freedom n democracy because comparing all countries usa n europe are the best example of regimes.
in my modest opinion (not defending anyone) its an attack over resources n for investment, see what happened in lebanon for example they ruined the ground n starved its people n came n bought all at cheap prices n sold it at high...same scenario is happening for all other countries especially that they are bigger. (economical war conflict btw big nations)
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so are you saying russia is supporting a democracy or are you trying to bring another non related point?
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Russi is rrealizing that it is outnumbered and has to find another way to protect this mass killer.
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Delete lol. That was hilarious dude!
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The big question is....... why did they wait to release this "evidence"???
Wouldn't it have been appropriate to give this evidence to the UN inspectors when they were in Syria?
Or did the butcher need more time to cook up some so-called "evidence"?
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maybe they just collected new evidence.
did the US ever give the UN their evidence? it's been almost a month they claim to have it.
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LoL, le summum de la mauvaise foi. Again, LOL
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maybe they were hoping for a more favorable report by the UN and decided to fabricate their own....
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I haven't read much into it, but the regime had been providing evidence of chem use before today and before the Aug 21 upset.
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You never asked to see evidence incriminating the regime, but now you're impatient? hahaha so hypocrite it's self-revealing :)
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ask and ye shall receive.
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2013/08/world/syria-documents/index.html
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Assad Thanks Russia for Helping Syria Face Down 'Savage Attack'
When I think of Savage attacks I think of Assads army attacks on Lebanese Citizens and destroying our cities during the civil war. I also think of what he is doing to his own people now.
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yeah, a year ago we were tinkering about gas pipe via Siriya so that'why the west keep waging wars in the middle east, russia wants to stop it, also russia wants to keep savage american agression towards its borders, next would be Iran, so russia saved iran for a while! However, u marked a very essential aspect of this conflic! good!
here is needness tos ay that russia has an objective-to form the new world system where all have rights to paticipate inspite the size of miitary power, one side dominated world is going to be over! The US dominates since 1991 when the USSR crumbled.... Now Russia returnes to balance the world, hope Liberals in krmelin woun't advance much.
Big LoL at Bachar. He's so naive. Russia did what it did to preserve Israel from a retaliation. Now there's a consensus to further equip the rebels.... Bachar, you're so going nowhere.
As of nazisrallah, he keeps shooting himself in the the foot. Jamiroqai( H.N.) keeps going deeper underground... He's burying himself alive pretty well. The icing on the sundae being the underage checkpoint terrorists à la Pakistani Taliban.
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