Monday, September 9, 2013

'Expect Everything': Assad Warns U.S. Bases in the Middle East Could Be Attacked in Retaliation for Strikes Against Syria

By David Martosko * Mail Online Syria's dictator told Charlie Rose that rebel groups or terrorists in his country may have chemical weapons that could strike American targets Retaliation for a U.S. attack, he hinted, could also come 'indirectly' via Iran Assad said Russia has evidence that contradicts what Secretary of State John Kerry has been telling Congress Syrias foreign minister said in Moscow that attacking the Assad regime would amount to helping al-Qaeda America's credibility around the world, Assad claimed, is an 'an all-time low' Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has warned that the United States should expect retaliation if the Obama administration moved forward with military strikes in response to a chemical weapons attack on August 21. 'You should expect everything,' Assad told American journalist Charlie Rose in a wide-ranging interview, portions of which were broadcast Monday morning on CBS. Such attacks could come from any of a number of different sources, he said, while not ruling out that his own military could launch them.



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