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This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.
Bashar al-Assad
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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
Military Leader
Ophthalmologist
President Of Syria
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We're not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We're not sure that anything happened.
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The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That's the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don't throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don't have any clue yet.
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Winning is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.
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If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.
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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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There is no such things as Islamic terrorism, because terrorism differs from Islam. There's just terrorism, not Islamic terrorism. But the term Islamic terrorism has become widespread.
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Before the 11th of September, in my discussions with many officials of the United States, some of them are Congressmen, I used to say that don't deal with terrorists as playing games. It's a different story. You're going to pay the price if you're not wise in dealing with terrorists.
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I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
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Regarding fighting terrorism, we are ready to cooperate with anyone in this world with no conditions. That's crux of our policy, not today, not yesterday for years, even before the war on Syria, we always said that.
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
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It is not my democracy as a person it is our democracy as a society.
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They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.
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I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.
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