Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Assad says European governments responsible for Paris terror attacks

Syrian President Bashar Assad urged states fighting terrorism to share intelligence, Syrian state media reported on Wednesday, saying European policies were responsible for attacks by Islamist gunmen in France last week.
Condemning the Paris attacks, Assad accused Western policymakers of being short sighted - criticism of their policy of support for the 2011 Syrian uprising that descended into an insurgency dominated by hardline Islamist militants.

Around a third of Syria is now held by Islamic State, which shares the hardline Sunni Islamist vision of the gunmen who mounted last week's attacks in France.

Western states including France have rejected past offers from the Syrian government to be part of the fight against the Islamic State group that has been targeted by US-led air strikes in Syria since September.

"There should be ... an exchange of information between the countries concerned with fighting terrorism," Assad said in excerpts of an interview with a Czech monthly magazine published by Syrian state media.

The Syrian government sees all armed opposition factions as terrorist groups. Assad said his country had been suffering from terrorism for four years. "We feel sympathy with the families of those victims," he said, referring to the attacks in France.

  [jpost.com by Reuters]
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  1. Proche-Orient et Charlie Hebdo: Assad pointe la responsabilité de l'Europe ...

    L'Europe est pour beaucoup responsable des événements en Syrie et de l'attentat terroriste commis récemment contre la rédaction de Charlie Hebdo à Paris, a déclaré le président syrien Bachar el-Assad dans une interview accordée au mensuel tchèque Literarni noviny.

    "Les politiques en Occident ont une courte vue (…) Je tiens à rappeler aux Occidentaux que, dès le début de la crise syrienne, nous les avons mis en garde contre des conséquences pareilles, en disant que le soutien, y compris politique, du terrorisme ne manquerait pas de se répercuter sur vos pays et vos gens. Mais personne ne nous a écoutés", a déploré M.Assad, en exprimant de profondes condoléances aux familles des victimes des attentats à Paris.

    Et d'ajouter que, dans la situation actuelle, la force était évidemment nécessaire pour combattre le terrorisme, mais qu'il ne s'agissait pas tellement des armées, mais plutôt d'une politique plus réfléchie.

    "Nous avons besoin de la culture et de l'éducation pour venir à bout de l'analphabétisme, il nous faut une économie efficace pour triompher de la misère, et un échange d'information entre Etats est indispensable dans la lutte contre le terrorisme", a souligné le chef de l'Etat syrien..................http://french.ruvr.ru/news/2015_01_14/Proche-Orient-et-Charlie-Hebdo-Assad-pointe-la-responsabilite-de-lEurope-2021/
    14/1/15

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