Syrian Dictator Assad: Terrorists are ‘definitely’ among refugees

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syrian dictator assadWeighing in on one of the most contentious issues in American politics — the danger posed to host countries by the 4.8 million people who have fled from Syria’s civil war — Syrian dictator Bashar Assad told Yahoo News that some of the refugees are “definitely” terrorists.

In an exclusive interview with Yahoo News at a presidential office in Damascus, Assad said President Trump’s freeze on admitting refugees from his country — part of an executive order that has drawn widespread protests and is being challenged in federal court — “is an American issue” on which he would not take sides. But asked if some of those who fled are “aligned with terrorists,” Assad quickly replied, “Definitely.”

“You can find it on the Net,” Assad went on: “Those terrorists in Syria, holding the machine gun or killing people, they [appear as] peaceful refugees in Europe or in the West.” He said he couldn’t estimate how many there might be, but he added that “you don’t need a significant number to commit atrocities.” He noted that the 9/11 attacks were pulled off by fewer than 20 terrorists “out of maybe millions of immigrants in the United States. So it’s not about the number, it’s about the quality, it’s about the intentions.”

As for the future of Syria’s 4.8 million refugees, Assad said, “For me, the priority is to bring those citizens to their country, not to help them immigrate.”

As with all interviews granted by President Bashar al-Assad, this interview was filmed by his presidential press office. No editorial changes were made to the content.

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6 responses to “Syrian Dictator Assad: Terrorists are ‘definitely’ among refugees”

  1. Ya Libnan News publishing the Yahoo Exclusive “Syria’s Assad tells Yahoo News some refugees are ‘definitely’ terrorists” (Michael Isikoff Chief Investigative Correspondent Yahoo NewsFebruary 9, 2017) with a modified headline;
    Syrian Dictator Assad: Terrorists are ‘definitely’ among refugees

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    Some of Ya Libnan News will will boil of anger against the editorial choice of the term Syrian Dictator Assad…..

  2. Assad: “As for the future of Syria’s 4.8 million refugees, Assad said, “For me, the priority is to bring those citizens to their country, not to help them immigrate.”

    Of course Assad wants them to come home.

    Middle East refugees is “The Oded Yinon Plan”.
    A transfer of population to empty the Middle East for Greater Israel.

    “The term Yinon Plan refers to an article published in February 1982 in the Hebrew journal Kivunim (“Directions”) entitled ‘A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s’.[1] Kivunim was a quarterly periodical[2] dedicated to the study of Judaism and Zionism which appeared between 1978 and 1987,[3] and was published by the World Zionist Organization’s department of Information in Jerusalem.[4] The article was penned by Oded Yinon, a former senior official with the Israeli Foreign Ministry[5][6][7][8] and journalist for the Jerusalem Post.[9] It is cited as an early example of characterizing political projects in the Middle East in terms of a logic of sectarian divisions.[10]”
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan

    1. An article about Assad and off you go to some anti Jew/Israel trash again.

      1. Where do you see anything anti-Jewish or anti-Israel? An article about Assad is about Syria; and Syria is crucial in the hegemonic plans of some.

        “The only prospect that holds hope for us is the carving up of Syria… It is our task to prepare for that prospect. All else is a purposeless waste of time.” – Zionist militant Zeév Jabotinsky, From “We and Turkey” in Di Tribune, November 30, 1915

        “We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Muslim regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan, and Syria will fall to us.” – David Ben-Gurion, From “Ben-Gurion, A Biography” by Michael Ben-Zohar, May 1948

        “It is obvious that the above military assumptions, and the whole plan too, depend also on the Arabs continuing to be even more divided than they are now, and on the lack of any truly mass movement among them… Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking Iraq up into denominations as in Syria and Lebanon… Syria will fall apart.” – Oded Yinon, 1982. From “The Zionist Plan for the Middle East”

        “Regime change is, of course, our goal both in Lebanon and Syria. We wrote long ago that there are three ways to achieve it- the dictator chooses to change; he falls before his own unhappy people; or if he poses a threat to the outside, the outside takes him out…” – Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), From strategy paper #474 “Priorities in Lebanon & Syria”, March 2, 2005

        1. Thanx dear, I didn’t realize you had an operation.

  3. Very inconsistant with Michael Isikoff book..
    The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War.
    “THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE INVASION OF IRAQ”

    “Filled with news-making revelations that made it a New York Times bestseller, Hubris takes us behind the scenes at the White House, CIA, Pentagon, State Department, and Congress to show how George W. Bush came to invade Iraq – and how his administration struggled with the devastating fallout.

    Hubris connects the dots between Bush’s expletive-laden outbursts at Saddam Hussein, the bitter battles between the CIA and the White House, the fights within the intelligence community over Saddam’s supposed weapons of mass destruction, the outing of an undercover CIA officer, and the Bush administration’s misleading sales campaign for war. Written by veteran reporters Michael Isikoff and David Corn, this is an inside look at how a president took the nation to war using faulty and fraudulent intelligence. It’s a dramatic page-turner and an intriguing account of conspiracy, backstabbing, bureaucratic ineptitude, journalistic malfeasance, and arrogance.”

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