08/11/2012 19:23
Bashar al-Assad won’t leave Syria
With battles flaring from the north to the south of his country, President Bashar al-Assad was quoted on Thursday as warning outside powers not to intervene militarily, saying the price of an invasion would be “more than the world can afford.”
He also indicated that he would not heed Western proposals to leave Syria, the New York Times reports.
“I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country,” he said. “I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.”