Exiled Ribal al-Assad: "We Should NOT Be Arming Syrian Rebels"
1,392 views · Published 29 June 2013 · 4:08 · Indexed 30 September 2026
Channel: americanhindi · 2013 · News & Politics
More than 100,000 people have died and millions have been displaced in Syria's two-year long conflict, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad shows no inclination to step down, nor, do the Islamist groups show any signs of giving up violence. Ribal al-Assad, Mr Assad's first cousin, says he does not expect the Syrian leader to leave the country of his own accord. "He's gone too far," Ribal al-Assad, founder of the Organisation for Democracy and Freedom in Syria, told the BBC's Katty Kay. But he warns the US and other Western countries should reconsider supporting the rebels in order to avoid facilitating a fundamentalist take-over in the country. He goes on to say that the rebels who are fighting the Syrian government troops known as the 'Free Syrian Army' and the 'Supreme Military Council' are made of ONLY Islamist Salafi groups. He mentions that a recent 'NATO War Tribunal Report" states that 70% of peaceful Syrian people now support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from their hearts and minds. "We don't want Syria becoming another Iran, where we replaced a dictatorship with a theocracy."
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