If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.
Bashar al-AssadIf the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don't know. I'm not a fortuneteller to tell you what's going to happen.
Bashar al-AssadYou cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other.
Bashar al-AssadYou look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.
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