Syrian President warns of 'earthquake' if West intervenes

Tuesday, 01 November 2011 03:11

Written by Navid Iqbal

Bashar Al-Asad president of Syria has warned about an “earthquake” if the Western countries intervene in Syria.

In an interview Syrian President said, involvement risked converting Syria to another Afghanistan.

His statements came after when a new call is made by UN secretary general for the oppression to the end.

According to activists, on Saturday when tanks shelled in Homs three people were killed.

More than 3,000 people died since the protest was called.

Fault line

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph Mr. Asad stated western countries are planning to ratchet up the pressure.

He also said this to the London based newspaper that Syria is now the hub of this region. And if anyone wants to play with this ground then it will cause earthquake.

It will burn the whole region if any problem is created in Syria. It will divide the region if the plan is to divide Syria.

To support President Asad ten thousand people rallied in Damascus on Wednesday.

President Bashar al-Asad admitted that his security forces had made many mistake in early part of uprising, but the paper said that he insisted only on terrorists.

Deposing Arab leaders, he stated that he responded in a different way than other to the Arab spring.

Mr. Asad said, “We didn’t go down the road of stubborn government”. He described the uprising as a struggle between pan-Arabism and Islamism.

He also said that they have been fighting Muslim brotherhood since 1950s and still fighting.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Mr. Bashar al-Asad need to respond to the demands for change with serious improvement, “not repression and violence”, as well as called for an instant halt to military actions.

Calls of Bashar al-Asad echo those members of Arab league who sent an urgent message on Friday to the government of Syria announcing “the continued killings of civilians” taking part is uprising.

The ministerial committee of that league also urged Damascus to take required measures to protect the general people.

Soldiers killed

Since the protest begins, Friday was one of the most vicious.

On Saturday, two main activist groups, Local Co-ordinating Commities and Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said shells crashed in the Baba Amr District of Homs.

Reuters reported that one person was shot dead by sniper and two people were killed during gun fire between Asad force and the defectors in the city.

In another incident 20 Syrian soldiers were killed and 53 injured in clashes. In separate incident, in a bus ambush 10 security agents were killed.