Assad Warns Against Arming Rebels, Denies Chemical Weapons Use
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned that Europe will “pay the price” for arming rebels trying to topple him and rejected accusations that he’s deployed chemical weapons against them as baseless.
In an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper in Damascus, Assad warned that European nations seeking to send weapons to rebels will only export “terrorists” back to Europe. He also said the U.S., U.K. and France hadn’t substantiated their chemical weapons allegations.