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President Assad: “The U.S. and other Western countries hamper every attempt to investigate the Khan Sheikhoun incident”
The article is about an interview with
President Assad by Sputnik. Reading the contents of the article, we can see
that President Assad accurately grasps the situation. We really understand that
the president garners the trust of the people as the leader of Syria.
The last paragraph of the article says that
North Korea supreme leader Kim Jong-un sent a telegram of congratulation to
President Assad and criticized U.S. attack on a Syrian airbase. This is the
same stance as Russia takes on the U.S. However, I can’t find it in my heart to
highly evaluate him like President Putin and President Assad. We might be
excessively instilled a bad image of Kim Jong-un by the media. However, I can’t
convince myself that Kim Jong-un is supported by the people in the truest sense
because he controls people with fear by purging so many political opponents.
Unless Sputnik succeeds in having an
interview with Kim Jong-un, we can hardly change image of Kim Jong-un so easily.
April
21, 2017
Masatoshi
Takeshita
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Shanti-phula has indicated some parts of
the following text in black boldface type or in red letters.
Partial translation of the Japanese version
of Sputnik – April 21, 2017 –
President
Assad:“The U.S. and other Western countries hamper every attempt to investigate
the Khan Sheikhoun incident”
Sputnik Japan
Syrian President
Assad pointed out in an interview with ‘Sputnik’ that “there was no chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun.
It was a false flag play.”
Sputnik released the contents of an
interview with Syrian president as follows:
*Journalist: Yesterday, there were reports that al-Baghdadi was captured by the
Russian and Syrian military at the border of Syria and Iraq. Can you
confirm it?
President Assad: No, no. That’s not true.
Journalist: That’s not true?
President Assad: No, no. That’s not true. Anyway, those borders are under the
control of ISIS till this moment., it’s neither Syrian nor Russian, not even
Western or American or any other one; it’s only ISIS
who’s controlling those borders, so it’s safe for al-Baghdadi to be in that
area.
Journalist: Alright. So, Damascus has said that it is ready for the mission of the
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to come and to investigate
the Khan Sheikhoun incident. Have there been any contacts between you
and this organization, and what are the possible dates
for the arrival of the first team of experts?
President Assad: Actually, since the first
attack a few years ago that happened in Aleppo by the terrorists against our
army, we asked the United Nations to send investigation
delegation in order to prove what we said about the
terrorists having gases used against our army, and later many incidents
happened in that way, and they didn’t send any delegation.
It’s the same now. We formally sent a letter to the
United Nations, we asked them in that letter to
send a delegation in order to investigate what happened in Khan Sheikhoun.
Of course till this moment they didn’t send, because
the West and the United States blocked any delegation from coming, because if
they come, they will find that all their narratives about what happened
in Khan Sheikhoun and then the attack on Shairat airport was a false flag, was a lie. That’s why they didn’t
send. Now the only contact I think is between Russia and maybe the other
countries in order to send that delegation. Till this moment, we didn’t have
any positive news regarding any delegation coming.
Journalist: What is
your view of what happened there? Because there were a lot of different
reports of different kinds, and misinterpretation and accusation of fake news.
So, what happened there according to your information?
President Assad: Actually,
that area is under the control of al-Nusra Front which is Al Qaeda. The only information the whole world has is what this organization or this group – which is al-Nusra – published on YouTube, on the internet in
general, and in different outlets, mainly Western outlets, so we cannot base
our judgment on their reports. First of all, we don’t know if the site that we
attacked that day half an hour before noon, about 11:30, was a chemical
warehouse or depot or anything like this. And their story said that the attack
happened at 6, 6:30 in the morning. We didn’t launch any attack at that time.
So, you have two possibilities: the first one is that there was an attack at
lunch time or at about 11:30. The other possibility that we believe in is that
it was a false flag, there was no attack, all what we
saw as pictures and videos was like the videos we’ve been seeing for the
last year or two years or more regarding the White
Helmets, the humanitarian Al Qaeda which is an elusive story, let’s say,
it doesn’t exist anyway, and the picture that shows children being killed by
Russian airstrike to discover later that it wasn’t a real picture, they put a
boy, they covered him with mud and blood, fake blood of course, and so on. All
these ploys could be part of them. That’s what we believe in, because the
attack was already prepared, and they didn’t want to listen, they didn’t want
to investigate; they only wanted to launch the attack. We
believe it was a false flag for one reason and a simple reason: if there
was gas leakage or attack, and you’re talking about 60
dead in that city, how could the city continue its life normally? They didn’t evacuate the city. No-one left the city, life continued as normal, and this is mass
destruction. The other day, they attacked Shairat where
they said there was the gas depots, and they attacked all the depots, and there
was no gas coming out of that airport. No-one of
our army officers or military staff, was affected by any gas. So, for
us, there was no gas attack and no gas depot, it was a
false flag play just to justify the attack on the Shairat base. That’s
what happened.**
According to the earlier report, North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a telegram of congratulation to Syrian President
Assad and condemned the U.S. for its missile strike on a Syrian airbase by
saying “reckless act of invasion” on Syria.
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The interview part (from * to **) is quoted
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