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Syria's Assad Says Priority is Capturing IS Capital Raqqa
[An Nahar] Syria's  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Light of the Alawites... tells a Chinese TV station that his military's priority is to reach the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group's de-facto capital of Raqqa -- toward which U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces are also advancing. The interview with Hong-Kong based Phoenix TV aired Saturday, Assad says another IS stronghold, Deir el-Zour, can be targeted in parallel. Assad says "in theory" he shares the same priority with U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... of fighting terrorism, but that they have had no formal contact yet. He says Russia, a major ally, hopes it can bring the U.S. and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... into cooperating with Moscow and Damascus in the fight against terrorism in Syria. Assad's government views all armed opposition as terrorist groups. Assad says all foreign troops on Syrian soil without invitation or consultation with the Syrian government are considered "invaders." Posted by: Fred 2017-03-12 |
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