President Bashar al-Assad over de (sunni-islam) bende terroristen en moordenaars (zie video hierboven) die opereert als doodseskaders in zijn land:
“Al Qaeda is a US creation financed by Arab countries, and this is well-known … the Americans adopt an interim policy according to the interim interests. They used to support Al Qaeda and called its members in the eighties – as former US President Ronald Reagan did – freedom fighters, and years later they became terrorists … Now some of them are back to dealing with them and now they say that there’s good extremism and bad extremism, meaning that they divide roles and change their labels and terms according to the condition of the U. S.: if Al Qaeda strikes at a country that they do not like, it is good, and if it strikes against the U.S. or its allies’ interests in a certain area, it becomes bad.”
bron (interview voor Channel 4, Iran, donderdagavond)