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Sun, Jan 06 2013 03:01:03

Highlights from Bashar Al Assad's speech Jan/6/2013

Live tweets by @ezzsaid , @RawyaRageh , @hhassan140 + commentary by other observers.

  1. Live tweets from AFP Middle-East and North Africa chief editor, Ezzedine Said
  2. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    I will livetweet the #Assad speech. Follow me for live updates #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 00:33:12
  3. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    The #Assadspeech about to start #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 01:57:04
  4. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad arrives for speech to wild applause #Assadspeech
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:02:03
  5. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    "we sacrifice our soul and blood for Bashar" chants #Assadspeech
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:02:53
  6. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: we meet as sufferings has spread in all of Syria #Assadspeech
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:04:25
  7. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: security has disappeared from the streets of #Syria #Assadspeech
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:05:01
  8. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: the conflict is between the "people and the criminal killers" #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:07:59
  9. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: Syria facing unprecedented attack that we have to face in order to save #Syria #Assadspeech
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:06:08
  10. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: the fight is between "the nation and its ennemies" #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:08:50
  11. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: we should all defend #Syria #Assadspeech
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:06:35
  12. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: people rose "against the so called revolution" #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:09:47
  13. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: the call it a "revolution" but it has nothing to do with that #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:10:40
  14. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: rebels are a "bunch of criminals" #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:11:19
  15. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: extremists from abroad leading the terrorists #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:12:16
  16. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: we are fighting those extremist jihadists, most of them not Syrian, are Qaeda affiliated #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:13:12
  17. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: extremists want to tranform #Syria into a "Jihad land" #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:14:28
  18. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: defeating the extremists "is not impossible" #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:15:42
  19. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: there's a regional plan to divide and weaken #Syria by supporting the rebels #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:16:28
  20. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad:the West seek to exploit what is happening in #Syria to hit the "resistance" #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:18:13
  21. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad thanks Russia, Iran and China for their suppport #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:18:43
  22. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: opposition in exile is part of the "agression" againts #Syria #Assadspeech
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:20:49
  23. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: we are in a full blown war, seeking to fend off a foreign agression #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:21:25
  24. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: reforms and fight against terrorism go hand in hand #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:22:36
  25. ezzsaid
    Ezzedine Said@ezzsaid
    Assad: we found "no partner" for a political dialogue #Assadspeech #Syria
    Sun, Jan 06 2013 02:23:59

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