At the very beginning, it was fully political. When you have these terrorists, the first part of the same plan which is political should start with stopping the smuggling of terrorists coming from abroad, stopping the logistic support, the money, all kinds of support coming to these terrorists.

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

They want to criticize you, let them criticize and do not worry. Just be transparent with your people and tell them this is the reality.

There's a difference between a mistake or even a crime that's been committed by an individual, and between a policy of crime that's been implemented or adopted by a government.

The external support can never substitute internal support, the example that we have to look at very well is Egypt and Tunisia ; they have all the support from the West and from the Gulf and from most of the countries of the world. When they don't have support within their country, they couldn't continue more than - how many weeks ? - three weeks. So, the only reason we stand here for two years and a half is because we have internal support, public support.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

We're not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We're not sure that anything happened.