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Syria’s Assad calls a spade a spade

“There are big powers, especially Western powers who historically never accepted the idea of other nations having their independence. They want those nations to submit to them.”  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/world/middleeast/assad-frames-syria-struggle-as-him-against-western-colonizers.html?hp The interview with Syrian president Bashir Al-Assad was conducted on Syria’s Independence Day celebrating the end of French occupation 67 years ago.“We must ask ourselves, did the […]

Syria outlines the conspiracy

The Syrian soldiers killed by Al Qaeda in Iraq, reflected the hardened sectarian animus spreading from the Syrian conflict, in which insurgents from the Sunni majority are battling to topple Mr. Assad and his Alawite minority, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/world/middleeast/islamic-state-of-iraq-says-it-killed-syrian-soldiers.html?ref=world&_r=0 Syria’s grand mufti referred to insurgents as ” a conspiracy of foreign enemies, […]