Syrian Coalition: Identification of Real Terrorist in Syria is Crucial to Successful International Solution

Haitham al-Maleh, head of the Legal Committee of the Syrian Coalition, said that everyone wants to fight terrorism, which is one of the priorities of the Syrian Coalition. He also said that “the problem of the international community that it is unable to accurately define the terrorist side. It must have designated the Assad regime as terrorist before placing Al Nusra Front on the terrorist list, since the Assad regime is the arch terrorist in the whole region.” Maleh’s remarks came in response to statements by Russian Foreign Ministry after a consultative meeting held between Russia and the United States. “The political process in Geneva 2 should help to unite the efforts of all Syrians in the fight against terrorism,” Russian Foreign Ministry said. Maleh also stated that “the international policy in defining the terrorists in Syria is based on distortion of facts, where the real terrorist is Bashar al-Assad and the terrorist militias of Hezbollah and Abu al Fadl al Abbas.” Furthermore, Maleh stressed that “Iran is waging a random war on the region and recruiting their sect in order to achieve its political interests without worrying about the lives of the Syrians. The scarecrow of terrorism, which the regime tries to exploit in order to influence the international community and to force the Syrian people to give up the demands that they rose up for, is no longer doing any good after its atrocious acts have been exposed.” Maleh went on: “If the International community is interested in the success of its mission to solve the Syrian crisis, it has to be fair and identifies the real terrorist and the side responsible for the massacres committed in Syria, namely by Assad’s forces and the foreign militias which kill the Syrians to support their interests in the region.” The head of the Legal Committee also said: “The international community is exaggerating the phenomenon of extremism in the ranks of the revolutionaries, though we cannot deny the existence of few of them. However, we have to recall Assad’s statements to the delegation of the Jordanian Bar that he has close ties with some of the fighters within the ranks of the revolutionaries. The Assad regime has been trying through those fighters to distort the popular revolution in Syria.” (Source: Syrian Coalition)