Syria will 'eliminate terror'
Syria's President Assad said his government had a duty to "eliminate terrorists" to protect its people. He also ruled out any solution to the crisis imposed from outside the country.
Assad: 'Government has to eliminate terrorists to save lives'
Syria's president Bashar Al-Assad has said that the Government has to eliminate terrorists to save thousands of lives.
Speaking to Iranian television, he also said a solution imposed on Syria from outside was unacceptable because only Syrians could resolve the country's crisis.
"No non-Syrian model is acceptable because no one but us knows how to solve the problem," Assad said during the rare hour-long interview.
The president said that some countries want the Kofi Annan peace plan to fail in order to blame Syria.
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