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Assad says Douma chemical weapons attack was UK public relations stunt
[ALMASDARNEWS] The US, the UK and La Belle France launched  s against Syria in April after accusing Damascus of a chemical attack in the city of Douma. The Syrian and Russian governments have charged the US and UK-funded White Helmets group with staging a false-flag chemical attack in the city to prompt Western military intervention.Speaking to The Mail on Sunday, President Assad accused the three Western powers of using the White Helmets group to give them a pretext to attack Syria. "The UK publicly supported the White Helmets that are a branch of al-Qaeda, al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... , in different areas of Syria. They [Britannia] spent a lot of money, and we consider the White Helmets to be a PR stunt by the UK. So yes, definitely, it was staged by these three countries together, and the UK is involved," Assad said. Noting that the US-British-French tripartite didn’t provide the public with evidence that an attack actually took place at Douma, Assad said that this wasn’t the point. "The crux of the issue is that they need to undermine the Syrian government, as they needed to change and topple the Syrian government at the beginning of the events of the war in Syria. They keep failing, they keep telling lies, and they continue to play a war of attrition against our government," the president said. Commenting on Prime Minister Theresa May’s statements that Britannia’s participation in the attack on Syria was permitted under international law and aimed at alleviating suffering, Assad said that by her logic, "when Britannia and the US attacked Iraq illegally in 2003, killed millions, caused mass destruction, let alone the number of widows and amputees... any government has the right to attack the UK or the US if it thought the act was justified, legal and allowed under international law to alleviate human suffering." Posted by: Fred 2018-06-11 |
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