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    SYRIA RAID COULD TRIGGER RUSSIA RESPONSE - AFSHIN RATTANZI

    09:36 29/08/2013 " INTERVIEWS

    Press TV has conducted an interview with Afshin Rattanzi, an author
    and journalist in London, about the the US and its allies beating
    the drums of war on Syria as well as warnings by other countries that
    such a strike would have dire consequences.

    - On the issue of an attack, we were speaking to our correspondent and
    he said that a question, which was raised by a lot of reporters today
    in Damascus is- What would be achieved, what would be the objective
    of a Western-led attack in Syria?

    We had some interesting remarks by Francois Hollande (French president)
    just now, he said that the civil war in Syria is a threat to global
    peace and that international law shouldn't be used as a pretext when
    we are seeing massacres take place, to protect the perpetrators.

    - Yes, those statements indicate that international law isn't something
    that Paris is too keen on.

    I'm speaking to you from London where there has been an emergency
    meeting taking place not a mile away from where I'm talking from. How
    ironic that as regards objectives that the National Security Council in
    Britain was set up after 9/11 to protect Britain from al-Qaeda-linked
    atrocities and what threatened them.

    And here is Britain threatening to go in with the United States to
    support al-Qaeda-linked militancy. I think even American generals
    are expressing their concern of the objectives of any attack by these
    warships in the Mediterranean. What are those objectives?

    - Yes that's the thing. A lot of people are asking, we have to put
    the question of who is going to benefit from this. A lot of observers
    are now pointing the finger at Israel. They are asking, who could
    have provided these chemical substances and chemical weapons? They
    are saying that this is a pre-planned scenario; and Russia has also
    been clearly saying that.

    Do you think we should be thinking about a scenario here similar for
    instance to the one in Iraq and that this actually could that that
    military attack is actually going to happen whatever the cost?

    - As regards to chemical weapons usage regardless of Israel and Saudi
    evidence supporting the threat of war to Obama's advisors, Samantha
    Powers and Susan Rice, we know who uses chemical weapons.

    The CIA de-classified a document that the US told Saddam to use them
    against Iran. The United States used them in Vietnam and Cambodia;
    in Fallujah in Iraq. It's not normal for any country except the
    United States to use chemical weapons; and of course white phosphorus
    in Fallujah.

    No, I think what the international community needs to do now is
    urgently support, ironically, the Syrian government in their quest
    to destroy the al-Qaeda-linked rebels.

    What started as a pro-democracy movement has deteriorated into this
    Islamist al-Nusra Front getting larger and larger and these governments
    have to get...

    The chemical weapons thing is about as important as the yellow cake
    in ... - of course those pictures were terrible and appalling, but
    we must stop that from happening again.

    The way to stop that from happening again, one would have to say
    based on reports from Carla Del Ponte ... being attacked - the UN
    weapons inspector - is to support the government of President Assad.

    - What is your prediction for what is going to happen from this stage
    on? Obama has been saying that without a UN mandate we are not going
    to attack, but it looks like they are really prepared for it.

    Do you think that even if the United Nations doesn't say who used
    the weapons or doesn't give that mandate that we are going to see a
    military strike?

    - American television is quoting White House sources as saying that
    Tomahawk missiles will be fired within 48 hours.

    So I suppose the important thing now is to get the relatives of the
    thousands of US troops on the USS Mahan and USS Gravely, the USS Barry
    and the USS Ramage and tell them that the ferocious attack back at
    them from Russian Iskander missiles will be pretty ferocious and that
    the United States is endangering their troops yet again in a war that
    will have no victors.

    Source: Panorama.am

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