Seymor Hersh: Syria Will Surpass Current Crisis
AMMAN, (ST)-American writer and journalist Seymour Hersh has stressed that Syria will surpass the ongoing crisis, urging the so-called “opposition” to hold negotiations with the Syrian government.
Addressing participants in the 7th Forum of the Amman-based Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) Network held recently in the Jordanian capital, Hersh said “Syria will surpass the current crisis and I advise the opposition to hold negotiations on forming a new government,” stressing that the so-called “Free Army” has no more existence.
Hersh clarified that US President Barack Obama lied when he accused the Syrian Army of using chemical weapons against civilians, pointing out that facts have proved that the terrorist organizations and Turkey are the parties which used them. He noted that the used weapons were in no way similar to the kinds of weapons the Syrian Army possessed and which later were handed over under an Syria’s agreement with the organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
He expected that a “new game” is to be crystallized in the region in which Iran will be a key player because the “story of Iranian nuclear file is over” according to him.
The American writer pointed out that Arab journalists are experiencing hard times amid the troubles and disturbances in the region, but, according to him this is a “golden age” to build true journalism.
In an article published by the “Review of Books” Magazine in April 2014, Hersh revealed the dangerous role played by Turkish President Recepe Tayyib Erdogan when he was a prime minister in the chemical attack launched by the armed terrorist groups on August 21st , 2013 in eastern Ghouta of Damascus Countryside aiming to provoke a US aggression on Syria.
Hamda Mustafa