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Syria President Assad says chemical attack '100% fabrication'

Our impression is that the West, mainly the US, is hand-in-glove with the terrorists, he said

Bashar al-Assad. Photo: Wikipedia

Bashar al-Assad (Photo: Wikipedia)

AFP | PTI Damascus
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town was a "fabrication" to justify a US military strike.

"Definitely, 100 per cent for us, it's fabrication... Our impression is that the West, mainly the United States, is hand-in-glove with the terrorists. They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack," Assad said on Wednesday, in his first interview since American cruise missiles hit a central Syrian air base.

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First Published: Apr 13 2017 | 8:05 PM IST

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