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   SUPERPOWER DEATH WATCH   
      
   EXTRA 03 03 13 Superpower Death Watch   
      
   WHAT THE SUPERPOWER’S    
   DECLARATION OF WORLD $LAVERY    
   MEANS   
      
      
      
      
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   President Al-Assad's Interview with The Sunday Times    
      
      
      
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   Sunday Times: Mr. President your recent offer of political dialogue was   
   qualified with a firm rejection of the very groups you would have to pacify to   
   stop the violence: the armed rebels and the Syrian National Coalition, the   
   main opposition alliance.     
   So in effect you are only extending an olive branch to the loyal opposition,   
   mostly internal, that renounce the armed struggle, and who effectively   
   recognizes the legitimacy of your leadership, who are you willing to talk to,   
   really?    
      
   President Assad: First of all, let me correct some of the misconceptions that   
   have been circulating and that are found in your question in order to make my   
   answer accurate.    
      
   Sunday Times: Okay.    
      
   President Assad: Firstly, when I announced the plan, I said that it was for   
   those who [were] interested in dialogue, because you cannot make a plan that   
   is based on dialogue with somebody who does not believe in dialogue.  So, I   
   was very clear regarding    
   this.    
      
   Secondly, this open dialogue should not be between exclusive groups but   
   between all Syrians of every level.  The dialogue is about the future of   
   Syria. We are twenty three million Syrians and all of us have the right to   
   participate in shaping the country’   
   s future.  Some may look at it as a dialogue between the government and   
   certain groups in the opposition --whether inside or outside, external or   
   internal-- actually this is a very shallow way of looking at the dialogue.  It   
   is much more comprehensive.     
   It is about every Syrian and about every aspect of Syrian life.  Syria’s   
   future cannot be determined simply by who leads it but by the ambitions and   
   aspirations of all its people.    
      
   The other aspect of the dialogue is that it opens the door for militants to   
   surrender their weapons and we have granted many amnesties to facilitate   
   this.  This is the only way to make a dialogue with those groups.  This has   
   already started, even before    
   the plan, and some have surrendered their weapons and they live now their   
   normal life.  But this plan makes the whole process more methodical, announced   
   and clear.    
      
   If you want to talk about the opposition, there is another misconception in   
   the West.  They put all the entities even if they are not homogeneous in one   
   basket --as if everything against the government is opposition.  We have to be   
   clear about this.  We    
   have opposition that are political entities and we have armed terrorists.  We   
   can engage in dialogue with the opposition but we cannot engage in dialogue   
   with terrorists; we fight terrorism.  Another phrase that is often mentioned   
   is the ‘internal    
   opposition inside Syria’ or ‘internal opposition as loyal to the government.’   
   Opposition groups should be loyal and patriotic to Syria – internal and   
   external opposition is not about the geographic position; it is about their   
   roots, resources and    
   representation.  Have these roots been planted in Syria and represent Syrian   
   people and Syrian interests or the interests of foreign government?  So, this   
   is how we look at the dialogue, this is how we started and how we are going to   
   continue.    
      
   Sunday Times: Most have rejected it, at least if we talk about the opposition   
   externally who are now the body that is being hailed as the opposition and   
   where the entire world is basically behind them. So, most of them have   
   rejected it with the    
   opposition describing your offer as a “waste of time,” and some have said that   
   it is “empty rhetoric” based on lack of trust and which British Secretary   
   William Hague described it as “beyond hypocritical” and the Americans said you   
   were “detached from    
   reality.”    
      
   President Assad: I will not comment on what so-called Syrian bodies outside   
   Syria have said.  These bodies are not independent.  As Syrians, we are   
   independent and we need to respond to independent bodies and this is not the   
   case.  So let’s look at the    
   other claims.  Firstly, detached from reality: Syria has been fighting   
   adversaries and foes for two years; you cannot do that if you do not have   
   public support.  People will not support you if you are detached from their   
   reality. A recent survey in the    
   UK shows that a good proportion British people want “to keep out of Syria” and   
   they do not believe that the British government should send military supplies   
   to the rebels in Syria.  In spite of this, the British government continues to   
   push the EU to    
   lift its arms embargo on Syria to start arming militants with heavy weapons.    
   That is what I call detached from reality --when you are detached from your   
   own public opinion!    
      
   And they go further in saying that they want to send “military aid” that they   
   describe as “non-lethal.”  The intelligence, communication and financial   
   assistance being provided is very lethal. The events of 11th of September were   
   not committed by lethal    
   aids. It was the application of non-lethal technology and training which   
   caused the atrocities.  The British government wants to send military aid to   
   moderate groups in Syria, knowing all too well that such moderate groups do   
   not exist in Syria; we all    
   know that we are now fighting Al-Qaeda or Jabhat al-Nusra which is an offshoot   
   of Al-Qaeda, and other groups of people indoctrinated with extreme   
   ideologies.  This is beyond hypocritical!  What is beyond hypocrisy is when   
   you talk about freedom of    
   expression and ban Syrian TV channels from the European broadcasting   
   satellites; when you shed tears for somebody killed in Syria by terrorist acts   
   while preventing the Security Council from issuing a statement denouncing the   
   suicide bombing that    
   happened last week in Damascus, and you were here, where three hundred Syrians   
   were either killed or injured, including women and children --all of them were   
   civilians.    
      
   Beyond hypocrisy when you preach about human rights and you go into Iraq,   
   Afghanistan and Libya and kill hundreds of thousands in illegal wars.  Beyond   
   hypocrisy is when you talk about democracy and your closest allies are the   
   worst autocratic regimes in    
   the world that belong to the medieval centuries. This is hypocrisy!    
      
      
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