Russia Says Saudi Arming Syria 'Terrorists'
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Russia accused Saudi Arabia and some other Gulf states on Thursday of funding "international terrorists and extremists" in the Syria conflict.
Moscow's angry statement came in response to accusations by Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, that Russia was responsible for mass killings in Syria because of its military support for the regime.
"Of course, we are not going to justify ourselves before anyone. Our fundamental position on Syria is well known," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
"At the same time, a number of capitals, including Riyadh, unfortunately are not ashamed of employing all sorts of methods and contacts, including by financing and arming international terrorists and extremists," the ministry statement said.
"Such actions must really be stopped."
Syrian President Bashar Assad refers to the armed opposition as terrorists, a position supported on occasion by Moscow.
Russia supplies its strategic Middle East ally with weapons under contracts signed before the conflict broke out in March 2011.
It has also blocked a series of U.N. Security Council resolutions condemning Assad for the violence, which a British-based monitor said has now claimed more than 100,000 lives.
27 June 2013, 21:11
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They are not terrorists. They are people who had been oppressed by the Baath party regime for over 40 years, starting with the murderer Hafez Assad to his son Bachar.. The father and his son are nothing but oppressive dictators… Yes some of the foreigners (terrorists) joined the Syrian revolution and it is hurting its image, but at the end the Syrian people started it and the Syrian people will end it… That is when they gain back their freedom and integrity and do to Bachar what they did to the dictator Mosolini in Italy during the second war… They hung him upside down.. That is the end that Bachar should get…
27 June 2013, 21:21
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@lebpatriot
So were you not the one who made @benzona promise to bring back only factual statements and stories from Saida not unsubstantiated one? And yet, here you are making unsubstantiated statements yourself... You are unabashedly and completely pro HA and M8 that no amount of nice sweet or sexy pictures or talk can hide. Give it up sister (if indeed you are a female), because it does not become you.
27 June 2013, 22:40
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When the war is over in Syria, the most visited place in Syria will be where they hang Bachar upside-down. We will all live and see that day soon…
28 June 2013, 01:21
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Oh the horrible Saudi's this was a peaceful protest that was being handled peacefully by the Syrian regime that was taking their demands into consideration and now Saudi and the arab world have turned this revolution into a civil war SHAME on you Saudi Arabia! Really people... you need to have a memory that goes a little longer than 3 months, or else you wouldn't remember when your wife is pregnant.
28 June 2013, 01:38
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Bombing the U.S Embassy in Lebanon is by HA and Iran, All Jewish bombing in Europe by HA, 3 Lebanese HA members charged of terrorism in Nigeria, bus bombing in Bulgaria last July as well as terrorist activity in Cyprus committed by HA. I see the source of terrorism somewhere in these actual events. NO?
28 June 2013, 02:18
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So what ever happened to the Palestinians? Aren't they also Sunnis in need of help?
28 June 2013, 06:41
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You've been played with just like the others from both sides, so all of you should be ashamed of yourself.
29 June 2013, 02:50
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I for one am from the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia and I don't find your racist insults even near amusing
or entertaining. Do you think that insulting someone's pride and country is right?
Do you think calling Arabs pigs are right? What if I were to insult your race huh? Did KSA ever say that they WERE responsible for anything? You think you can barge into this political discussion with some beach girl profile pic and act all cool by insulting someone's country and praising your own after reading the first sentence of this article? Get real and, more importantly, get a life.
