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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
'No barrel bombs or cooking pots': Assad denies reports of violations
2015-02-11
[ARA] The Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
said Tuesday that his regime has received information from the U.S.-led international coalition's forces about their strikes against Death Eaters of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS/ISIS).

"Sometimes, they convey a message, a general message, but there's nothing tactical," Assad told the BBC in an interview.

"There is no dialogue. There's, let's say, information, but not dialogue."

Assad also denied reports by human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
organizations about the Syrian regime army's use of barrel bombs against populated areas.

"I haven't heard of the army using barrels, or maybe, cooking pots," he sarcastically said.
Posted by:Fred

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