is this guy worried about his soul or is this a PR attempt to sway opinion in his favor?The message was passed on through a Syrian government delegation that held talks at the Vatican with the pontiff's Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and foreign affairs official Dominique Mamberti.
"The delegation brought a message from President Assad for the Holy Father and explained the position of the Syrian government," a statement said.The official Syrian Arab News Agency said Assad expressed his government's "determination to exercise its right to defend all its citizens, whatever their religion, against the crimes committed by the takfiri (Sunni Muslim extremist) bands who attack them in their homes, in their places of worship and in their neighbourhoods."Assad's regime prides itself on its secularism. While the rebels fighting for its overthrow are mainly Sunni, the government draws much of its support from Assad's own Alawite minority, as well as from Christians and other minorities.
Assad said the conflict could be resolved only by a "national dialogue between Syrians without foreign interference, because the Syrian people is the sole master of its own destiny and it alone should its leadership."
if that were true why did he deny using the weapons this is just trying to get Pope Frankie to sanction his desire to keep the talks in house the house that he rules and that they are protesting against, not even a nice try doing the dirt and the world watches he now wants to exclude those who would aware the world of his continued atrocities against his people with them gone back to business.
the ball is now in Pope Frankies court will he stay true or what?
