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History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

Bashar al-Assad

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Bashar al-Assad
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 11
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President Of Syria
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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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On the border area with Lebanon where [Hezbollah forces] want to protect themselves and cooperate with us, but they don't exist all over Syria.
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Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.
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In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer.
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The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.
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Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.
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That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
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The United States' credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.
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Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.
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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.
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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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We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts.
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It's not exactly fair to make a mistake yourself and then start blaming others for it.
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From Russia for example, we have political support, which is different from the cooperation. We have cooperation for 60 years now, but now we have political support.
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This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that's good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.
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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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In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.
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Anyone who's not military knows this fact. Why do you use chemical weapons while you're advancing ?
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