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General KNOWLEDGE's - Assad: Amerika Syarikat 'boleh mengharapkan
segala-galanya' jika ia menyerang Syria. Presiden Syria Bashar Assad telah memberi
AMARAN bahawa Amerika Syarikat boleh mengharapkan tindak balas jika ia
melancarkan serangan tentera terhadap Syria sebagai tindak balas kepada dakwaan
August 21 serangan kimia.
“Anda boleh mengharapkan segala-galanya. Tidak
semestinya dari kerajaan, “Assad memberitahu CBS dalam satu temu bual yang
dijalankan di istana presiden di Damsyik. Beliau seterusnya berkata bahawa ia
adalah “bukan sahaja kerajaan” di rantau ini. “Anda mempunyai pihak yang
berbeza, anda mempunyai kumpulan yang berbeza, anda mempunyai ideologi yang
berbeza.”
Ditanya sama ada beliau akan melancarkan tindak
balas ketenteraan kepada mana-mana serangan ke atas Syria, Assad berkata, “Saya
bukannya teller nasib untuk memberitahu anda apa yang akan berlaku.”
Amerika Syarikat akan “membayar harga yang jika anda
tidak bijak dengan berurusan dengan pengganas,” kata Presiden Syria memberitahu
'CBS Pagi Ini' bersama tuan rumah Charlie Rose dalam wawancara pertamanya
dengan televisyen Amerika dalam tempoh hampir 2 tahun.
Ini datang sebagai Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack
Obama sedang mencari untuk memenangi kebenaran daripada Kongres Amerika
Syarikat - yang telah agak ragu-ragu setakat ini - untuk menyerang ‘terhad’
tentera terhadap kerajaan Syria. Pentadbiran menuduh kerajaan Syria mengarahkan
penggunaan senjata kimia di pinggir bandar Damsyik bulan lepas.
Assad, bagaimanapun, menafikan sebarang penglibatan
dalam serangan yang didakwa.
“Tidak ada bukti bahawa saya menggunakan senjata
kimia terhadap orang-orang saya sendiri,” katanya.
Menurut Assad, kuasa-kuasa kerajaan tidak berada
dalam kawasan serangan senjata kimia pada 21 Ogos.
“Anggota tentera di kawasan lain telah diserang
kimia,” katanya. “Tetapi di kawasan di mana mereka berkata kerajaan telah
menggunakan senjata kimia, kita hanya mempunyai video dan kita hanya mempunyai
gambar-gambar dan tuduhan. Kita tidak berada di sana.”
Versi penuh temu bual itu, bahagian-bahagian yang
telah ditunjukkan oleh CBS, akan disiarkan pada petang Isnin di PBS.
Assad:
US ‘should expect everything’ if it strikes Syria
Syrian
President Bashar Assad has warned that the United States should expect a
retaliation if it launches a military strike against Syria in response to the
alleged August 21 chemical attack.
“You
should expect everything. Not necessarily from the government,” Assad told CBS
in an interview conducted in the presidential palace in Damascus. He went on to
say that it is “not only the government” in the region. “You have different
parties, you have different factions, you have different ideology.”
Asked
if he would mount a military response to any attack on Syria, Assad said “I am
not fortune teller to tell you what's going to happen.”
The
US will “pay the price if you are not wise with dealing with terrorists,” the
Syrian president told ‘CBS This Morning’ co-host Charlie Rose in his first
interview with American television in nearly two years.
This
comes as American President Barack Obama is seeking to win an authorization
from US Congress – that has been rather skeptical so far - for a ‘limited’
military strike against the Syrian government. The administration accused the
Syrian government of ordering the use of chemical weapons in a Damascus suburb
last month.
Assad,
however, denied any involvement in the alleged attack.
“There
is no evidence that I used chemical weapons against my own people,” he said.
According
to Assad, the government forces were not in the area of the chemical weapons
attack on August 21.
“Our
soldiers in another area were attacked chemically,” he said. “But in the area
where they said the government used chemical weapons, we only had video and we
only have pictures and allegations. We're not there.”
The
full version of the interview, portions of which were shown by CBS, will be
aired on Monday evening on PBS.
