One Hour Fox news Interview with Assad on NOW.

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[Recovering Ex-hippie]

INTERVIEW WITH ASSAD ON FOX NOW...WITH KUCINICH AND A FOX REPORTER....NO LIMIT ON QUESTIONS. aSSAD SPEKING IN ENGLISH..fOX PANEL TO FOLLOW

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Gee Juan, Ya think?
:)

[penelopesire]

Not sure how innocent he is but I don’t believe he ordered a chemical weapons attack. It could have been a rogue member of his own military(paid off by SA or our own CIA) or the Islamist terrorists. I do not trust Obama or anyone in his administration..or John McCain and others who want to use our military as mercenaries for Saudi Arabia and Qatar’s interests. I know that those people do not have the best interests of America at heart. Sad to say, but true.

[Yosemitest]

Maybe.
But I'm simply telling you what I saw and heard, BEFORE the news panel spin.
I know very little about Assad, but I'd believe him before ... well I'd NEVER believe Barry Soetoro.

[sand88]

see post #125 and then take a logic course so you can carry on a “discussion”.

LOL.. you are truly sad..... I guess in your hippie days you used the bong too much ---- lol.

I am a trained Engineer. I don't need your laughable comments.:) You take yourself too seriously...

[Labyrinthos]

Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

I haven't heard this since the Bush adminstration.

[Zhang Fei]

BTW....every time we help muzzies kill Christians..... the ingrates turn on us in time Bosnia....Egypt.....Kosovo...

Who would have thought, after we helped the Afghans hold off the Russians with billions of dollars in training and weaponry, that 15 years later, we'd be spending $100b a year there fighting the same Afghans?

[penelopesire]

Well said! This is a war that global power brokers and elites want and has nothing to do with the innocent people getting slaughtered or chemical weapons. If it was, the whole game plan would look totally different.

[wardaddy]

I did not say you said anything

I asked you if you thought Assad worse than the rebels for us?

I bloviated about the complexity and our enemies fighting each other and how helping muzzies over Christ followers is folly to me

So which is worse for America

Assad?

The Rebs?

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Looks like you are a trained engineer who never took a logic course and when called it reacts with personal attacks way out in left field...kind of like the Libs do.

I comment on Assad being a sociopath and you infer that I meant we should arm the rebels???

and to your profoundly logical response “ you used the bong too much —— lol. “ I would respond with
“Guess you must have been a chemical engineer and sniffed too many chemicals...”
ha. ha.

[Yosemitest]

Have you read Saudi Prince Bandar behind chemical attack in Syria: report ?

And this:

EXCLUSIVE: Syrians In Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack
Rebels and local residents in Ghouta accuse Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan of providing chemical weapons to an al-Qaida linked rebel group.
By Dale Gavlak and Yahya Ababneh | August 29, 2013

This article is a collaboration between Dale Gavlak reporting for Mint Press News and Yahya Ababneh.

Ghouta, Syria — As the machinery for a U.S.-led military intervention in Syria gathers pace following last week’s chemical weapons attack, the U.S. and its allies may be targeting the wrong culprit.

Interviews with people in Damascus and Ghouta, a suburb of the Syrian capital, where the humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders said at least 355 people had died last week from what it believed to be a neurotoxic agent, appear to indicate as much.

The U.S., Britain, and France as well as the Arab League have accused the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for carrying out the chemical weapons attack, which mainly targeted civilians. U.S. warships are stationed in the Mediterranean Sea to launch military strikes against Syria in punishment for carrying out a massive chemical weapons attack. The U.S. and others are not interested in examining any contrary evidence, with U.S Secretary of State John Kerry saying Monday that Assad’s guilt was “a judgment … already clear to the world.”

However, from numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families, a different picture emerges. Many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the dealing gas attack.

“My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” said Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of a rebel fighting to unseat Assad, who lives in Ghouta.

Abdel-Moneim said his son and 12 other rebels were killed inside of a tunnel used to store weapons provided by a Saudi militant, known as Abu Ayesha, who was leading a fighting battalion. The father described the weapons as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas bottle.”

Ghouta townspeople said the rebels were using mosques and private houses to sleep while storing their weapons in tunnels.

Abdel-Moneim said his son and the others died during the chemical weapons attack. That same day, the militant group Jabhat al-Nusra, which is linked to al-Qaida, announced that it would similarly attack civilians in the Assad regime’s heartland of Latakia on Syria’s western coast, in purported retaliation.

“They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them,” complained a female fighter named ‘K.’ “We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”

“When Saudi Prince Bandar gives such weapons to people, he must give them to those who know how to handle and use them,” she warned. She, like other Syrians, do not want to use their full names for fear of retribution.

A well-known rebel leader in Ghouta named ‘J’ agreed. “Jabhat al-Nusra militants do not cooperate with other rebels, except with fighting on the ground. They do not share secret information. They merely used some ordinary rebels to carry and operate this material,” he said.

“We were very curious about these arms. And unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions,” ‘J’ said.

Doctors who treated the chemical weapons attack victims cautioned interviewers to be careful about asking questions regarding who, exactly, was responsible for the deadly assault.

The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders added that health workers aiding 3,600 patients also reported experiencing similar symptoms, including frothing at the mouth, respiratory distress, convulsions and blurry vision. The group has not been able to independently verify the information.

More than a dozen rebels interviewed reported that their salaries came from the Saudi government.

Saudi involvement

In a recent article for Business Insider, reporter Geoffrey Ingersoll highlighted Saudi Prince Bandar’s role in the two-and-a-half year Syrian civil war. Many observers believe Bandar, with his close ties to Washington, has been at the very heart of the push for war by the U.S. against Assad.

Ingersoll referred to an article in the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph about secret Russian-Saudi talks alleging that Bandar offered Russian President Vladimir Putin cheap oil in exchange for dumping Assad.

“Prince Bandar pledged to safeguard Russia’s naval base in Syria if the Assad regime is toppled, but he also hinted at Chechen terrorist attacks on Russia’s Winter Olympics in Sochi if there is no accord,” Ingersoll wrote.

“I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” Bandar allegedly told the Russians.

“Along with Saudi officials, the U.S. allegedly gave the Saudi intelligence chief the thumbs up to conduct these talks with Russia, which comes as no surprise,” Ingersoll wrote.

“Bandar is American-educated, both military and collegiate, served as a highly influential Saudi Ambassador to the U.S., and the CIA totally loves this guy,” he added.

According to U.K.’s Independent newspaper, it was Prince Bandar’s intelligence agency that first brought allegations of the use of sarin gas by the regime to the attention of Western allies in February.

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the CIA realized Saudi Arabia was “serious” about toppling Assad when the Saudi king named Prince Bandar to lead the effort.

“They believed that Prince Bandar, a veteran of the diplomatic intrigues of Washington and the Arab world, could deliver what the CIA couldn’t: planeloads of money and arms, and, as one U.S. diplomat put it, wasta, Arabic for under-the-table clout,” it said.

Bandar has been advancing Saudi Arabia’s top foreign policy goal, WSJ reported, of defeating Assad and his Iranian and Hezbollah allies.

To that aim, Bandar worked Washington to back a program to arm and train rebels out of a planned military base in Jordan. The newspaper reports that he met with the “uneasy Jordanians about such a base”:

His meetings in Amman with Jordan’s King Abdullah sometimes ran to eight hours in a single sitting. “The king would joke: ‘Oh, Bandar’s coming again? Let’s clear two days for the meeting,’ ” said a person familiar with the meetings.

Jordan’s financial dependence on Saudi Arabia may have given the Saudis strong leverage. An operations center in Jordan started going online in the summer of 2012, including an airstrip and warehouses for arms. Saudi-procured AK-47s and ammunition arrived, WSJ reported, citing Arab officials.

Although Saudi Arabia has officially maintained that it supported more moderate rebels, the newspaper reported that “funds and arms were being funneled to radicals on the side, simply to counter the influence of rival Islamists backed by Qatar.”

But rebels interviewed said Prince Bandar is referred to as “al-Habib” or ‘the lover’ by al-Qaida militants fighting in Syria.

Peter Oborne, writing in the Daily Telegraph on Thursday, has issued a word of caution about Washington’s rush to punish the Assad regime with so-called ‘limited’ strikes not meant to overthrow the Syrian leader but diminish his capacity to use chemical weapons:

Consider this: the only beneficiaries from the atrocity were the rebels, previously losing the war, who now have Britain and America ready to intervene on their side. While there seems to be little doubt that chemical weapons were used, there is doubt about who deployed them.

It is important to remember that Assad has been accused of using poison gas against civilians before. But on that occasion, Carla del Ponte, a U.N. commissioner on Syria, concluded that the rebels, not Assad, were probably responsible.

Some information in this article could not be independently verified. Mint Press News will continue to provide further information and updates .

Dale Gavlak is a Middle East correspondent for Mint Press News and has reported from Amman, Jordan, writing for the Associated Press, NPR and BBC. An expert in Middle Eastern affairs, Gavlak covers the Levant region, writing on topics including politics, social issues and economic trends. Dale holds a M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago. Contact Dale at dgavlak@mintpressnews.com

Yahya Ababneh is a Jordanian freelance journalist and is currently working on a master’s degree in journalism, He has covered events in Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Libya. His stories have appeared on Amman Net, Saraya News, Gerasa News and elsewhere.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I agree with you that Jhihadi al quida are worse than Assad at this time.
Having said that Assad carries out proxy wars in the mideast and is a lying demagogue and monstor.

the real problem we have is not that we get ‘involved” overseas///but that we don’t have an objective for what WE want and then go for no-holds barred victory! Obama has made this even worse...we win Vietnam militarily, then Kerry sells us out for ‘peace”; we win in Iraq, and Obozo pulls out so we have no bases, no oil-zip; we go into Afghanistan and screw around with crazy ROE and that idiot
Karzai and now we leave.

I believe we should TAKE Suaudi Arabia militarily, control and TAKE the oil( that funds terrorists ), sell it to the Russians and chinese for 25 cents on the dollar, build up our economy, pay off the debt and build our Military and take care of our vets.

[penelopesire]

Thanks! I have read some of the same reports but some new info in this one.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I believe we should TAKE Suaudi Arabia militarily . . .

Have you ever heard of Mecca? What do you think the results of that might be?

[frickin_frackin]

He has rape rooms just like Saddam did. There isn’t much difference between Muslim dictators.

[cunning_fish]

Frontline: Dramatic report as Syria Army battles jihadists in ancient Christian village (VIDEO)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3065951/posts
Russia today has covered the battle.

[SeaHawkFan]

Assad is a bad guy, except when compared to his enemies. It is a Muslim nation, and they do not value human life. Nothing is going to change that.

Assad was astounded, and so was I, that the interviewers kept asking about democratic elections as if fighting terrorists has no impact on having an election.

In the history of the Muslim world, there hasn’t been a democratic or republican government since .......NEVER. It’s not going to happen now.

[Cruiser1962]

Last week I saw a split screen with Assad on the left and Kerry on the right... I swear it was Dracula and Frankenstein. I then pictured in my mind Obama as Jack Skelington from Nightmare Before Christmas. Maybe I am just too excited for Halloween.

Lady Vet out.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

The longer I live, and the more I think about these things, the more I think that the the US needs to concentrate on maintaining and increasing its economic strength and ability to provide opportunities to its citizens. Our ability to help other nations, provide support to those in need, and intervene when it is necessary and the right thing to do is dependent on our strength as a nation. If we are struggling economically we will have a significantly diminished capacity to help others.

[penelopesire]

Point taken...Yet Saddam’s rape rooms are not why we went to war in Iraq, nor should it have been. I am no fan of Assad. There is just no US strategic reason to enter into a civil war in Syria and aid our true enemies...AQ and Islamists..who DID attack our country on 911and plot to do so again.

[cunning_fish]

>>>>In the history of the Muslim world, there hasn’t been a democratic or republican government since .......NEVER. It’s not going to happen now.<<<<

What about a Kemalist Turkey?