WHERE IS THE PROOF THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT GASSED ITS CITIZENS ASSAD ASKS?

Steve Lefemine
September 2, 2013   Syria's Assad challenges Obama and France's Holland to provide " a single proof"
proving chemical weapons use accusation
  Le Figaro (France)
Assad's warning to Francehttp://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2013/09/02/01003-20130902ARTFIG00569-assad-s-warning-to-france.php
Publié le 02/09/2013 à 19:54  ______________________________________________________________________
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Excerpt from Politico article (further below):
   
"Syrian President Bashar Assad called on the United States to offer proof of chemical weapons use
by his government in a new interview with a French publication on Monday, saying thus far the U.S. and
France have failed to do so."


" "Whoever accuses must offer proof. We have challenged the United States and France to offer
a single proof. Mr. Obama and Mr. Hollande have been unable, including before their peoples,"Assad said in an exclusive interview with Le Figaro, according to a translation by POLITICO."
POLITICO
Bashar Assad: Obama has shown no proofhttp://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/bashar-assad-obama-syria-no-proof-96166.html 9/2/13 1:45 PM EDT
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Assad's warning to France
http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2013/09/02/01003-20130902ARTFIG00569-assad-s-warning-to-france.php  
Par Georges MalbrunotPublié le 02/09/2013 à 19:54
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INTERVIEW - In an exclusive interview with our special envoy to Damascus, Georges Malbrunot,
the Syrian president Bachar el-Assad answers questions about chemical weapons, Barack Obama,
the risk of a regional war, etc ... This is an excerpt of the interview.


LE FIGARO - Can you prove to us that your army did not use chemical weapons on 21 August
in the Damascus suburb, during attacks that killed more than a thousand people, as you are
accused of by Barack Obama and Francois Hollande?


Bachar el-Assad - It is for those who are making the accusations to provide the proof. We have challenged
the United States and France to put forward a single proof. Obama and Hollande have been unable to do so,
even to their own people. (...)? I'm not at all suggesting that the Syrian army does or does not possess such
weapons. Let's suppose that our army wishes to use WMD: is it really going to do so in an area where it is
actually present and where soldiers have been wounded by these weapons, as the UN inspectors found during
their visit to the hospital where they were being treated? Where is the logic in that?


What would your response be in case of military strikes against Syria?

The Middle East is a powder keg, and today the flame is coming very near. We cannot talk merely about the
Syrian response, but about what might take place after the first strike. But nobody knows what will happen.
Everyone will lose control of the situation when the powder keg explodes. Chaos and extremism will spread.
There is a risk of regional war.


Has France become an ennemy of Syria?

Whoever contributes to the terrorist's financial or military strengthening is the enemy of the Syrian people.
Whoever works against the interests of Syria and its' citizens is an enemy. The French people is not our enemy,
but the policy of its' state is hostile to the Syrian people. To the extent that the policy of the French state is hostile
to the Syrian people, this state will be its' enemy. This hostility will end when the French state will change policy.
There will be repercussions, negative off course, for the French interests.

Read the whole interview for our digital subscribers from 22.00 PM on lefigaro.fr
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_________________________________________________________________________  POLITICO
  Bashar Assad: Obama has shown no proofhttp://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/bashar-assad-obama-syria-no-proof-96166.html 9/2/13 1:45 PM EDT


Syrian President Bashar Assad called on the United States to offer proof of chemical weapons use by his government
in a new interview with a French publication on Monday, saying thus far the U.S. and France have failed to do so.

"Whoever accuses must offer proof. We have challenged the United States and France to offer a single proof. Mr. Obama
and Mr. Hollande have been unable, including before their peoples,"Assad said in an exclusive interview with Le Figaro,
according to a translation by POLITICO.

Assad would not say whether his army has chemical weapons, but he did question the idea of Syria using such weapons
in a place its own soldiers could be affected.

( PHOTOS: International response to Syria)

"Suppose that our army wished to use weapons of mass destruction: Is it possible to use them in a zone where it is itself,
and where soldiers were injured by them, as found by United Nations weapons inspectors in their visit to the hospital where
they were treated? Where is the logic?" Assad said.

The Syrian leader called the Middle East a powder keg and said there remains a risk of a regional war if it erupts. He also said,
when asked if France is an enemy of Syria, that anyone who supports "terrorists" and works against the interests of Syria
is an enemy, and there would be negative repercussions against those states.