アサド大統領インタビュー: "The chemical attack was fabricated"
シリアのアサド大統領が仏AFPによるインタビューに英語で答え、化学兵器の使用は"fabricated"、作り話だ、と語っています。
米Daily Beastの記事に、1分08秒の動画が載っています。アサド大統領はイギリスに留学しており、「中東のダイアナ」ことアスマー夫人(イギリス生まれ)とも留学中に出会っています。
わからない語句は英辞郎で:
アサド氏の英語には正文法通りでない部分があります。
聞き手の英語はフランス語訛りの英語です。
"We don't have any chemical weapons. We gave up our arsenals a few years ago. Even if we have them, we wouldn't use them, and we have never used our chemical arsenal in our history."
Q: So what happened (on) this day?
"As I said, the only source is Al Qaeda, (so) we cannot take it seriously, but 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.
It wasn't (an) attack because of what happened in Khan Sheikhoun. It's one event; it's stage one. The 'play' that we saw on the social network(×ing) and on TV(×s), the propaganda, and stage two: the military attack. That's what we believe is happening, because it's only (a) few days ― two days, 48 hours ― between the 'play' and the attacks, and (there were) no investigations, no concrete evidence about anything. The only things (there were) were allegations and propaganda and then (the missile) strike."
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