Archive : novembre 2011, Der Spiegel interview le Grand mufti de Syrie, Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun, proche de Bachar Assad. Quand il décrit des événements du début du soulèvement qui ne cadre pas avec la narrative occidentale du moment, le journaliste lui balance l’accusation de « théorie du complot ». Charmante méthode.
Interview with Syrian Grand Mufti : ’Assad Could Step Down After Free Elections’
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Hassoun: In March, there was a completely justified, peaceful rally in Daraa against the governor of the region, who had thrown schoolchildren into prison. Daraa is a town near the Jordanian border known for smuggling. I went there right away and brought calm to the situation, and I promised the people an independent investigation. At my suggestion, the president removed the governor from office. But then imams who had come from abroad, especially Saudi Arabia, stirred things up with their inflammatory speeches. The news channels stationed in the Gulf states, Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, helped them by falsely claiming that the clergy was on the side of the anti-Assad protesters.
SPIEGEL: Are you saying that the uprising against Assad was not triggered by regime repression but is being controlled from abroad?
Hassoun: Look at the second center of unrest, next to Daraa: Homs. That city is also very close to the border, in this case with Lebanon. Unpleasant elements — Iraqis, Afghans, Saudis and Yemenis — have also come from there, all with a radical, fundamentalist agenda. The provocateurs even attacked police chiefs and military officers in their homes.
SPIEGEL: It sounds like a conspiracy theory, with which you are trying to gloss over the failure of the Assad regime.