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The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

Bashar al-Assad

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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[ Jihadists] are going to be against you sooner or later.
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This war [in Syria] is going to support Al-Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September. The second thing that we want to tell Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and allegations that they presented.
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Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel it should be comprehensive.
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We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria they delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.
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[Hezbollah forces] cannot exist all over Syria anyway, for many reasons, but they exist on the borders.
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Talking about winning and losing is like if you're talking about two armies fighting on two territories, which is not the case. Those [terrorists] are gangs, coming from abroad, infiltrate inhabited areas, kill the people, take their houses, and shoot at the army. The army cannot do the same, and the army doesn't exist everywhere.
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We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call free Syrian army. That's what we said.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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Its not about learning to trust. Its about learning what it is I place my trust in and why. Its like learning to see the forest for the trees. You cannot see the forest for the trees unless you are outside the forest.
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Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.
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At the end, killing is killing. Massacring is massacring.
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I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including Syria. The second one is not to turn Secretary-General office into a part or branch of the State Department of the United States.
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I wouldn't tell the President [Barack Obama] or any other official, because we are disappointed by their behavior recently, because we expected this administration to be different from Bush's administration. They are adopting the same doctrine with different accessories.
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The army is making good advancement on daily basis against the terrorists. Of course, they still have the support of Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and some Western countries including the United States, but the only option that we have in that regard is to win.
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Those who arrived on America's tanks are not credible in Iraq.
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When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.
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The first thing you have to learn is how to conduct dialogue and how to make it productive.
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The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house it's a very primitive gas. So, it's not something complicated.
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