Doomsday World War 3 Only 1 Week Away? Surrender Chemical Weapons or Face Attack – U.S. to Syria (VIDEOS/PHOTOS)
The U.S. has sounded the alarm, giving Syria a one-week deadline ultimatum to turn over all its chemical weapons or otherwise face the wrath of a military strike. As expected, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a counter verbal attack that its government will not take lightly any international intrusion to the country's civil war. Would doomsday World War 3 occur middle of September 2013?
But what if the feared World War 3 happens on Wednesday, the commemoration of the 9/11 attacks, the date the U.S. Congress will also debate to go or no go the military airstrike against Syria which President Barack Obama has so passionately lobbied.
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On Monday at a London press conference, John Kerry, U.S. secretary of state, lashed at Mr Assad, calling him "a man without credibility" and "brutal dictator with a history of playing fast and loose with the facts cannot be trusted to turn over chemical weapons, otherwise he would have done so long ago."
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Mr Assad, however, without hinting details, in his first interview on American television for two years with CBS, cautioned the world to prepare and "expect everything."
"Nobody expected the 11th of September," he said. "The governments are not the only player in this region. You have different parties, you have different factions, you have different ideologies, you have everything in this region now," he said.
Terrorists groups, Mr Assad further said, are agitated and "on the brink of explosion." It was like saying that doomsday World War 3 could occur even today, a day before Sept 11.
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"Sure, he could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week - turn it over, all of it without delay and allow the full and total accounting, but he isn't about to do it and it can't be done," Mr Kerry said during the press conference.
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His boss, however, the U.S. president himself, would like to think there remains a certain goodness in Mr Assad that he will indeed turn over the chemical weapons being questioned which his troops allegedly used to bomb Damascus on Aug 21.
Mr Obama's change of tone, not necessarily change of heart, came up after Russia proposed and will talk it out with Syria to turn the weapons over to the international community.
"We're going to run this to ground ... see if we can arrive at something that is enforceable and serious," Mr Obama said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
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"We have not seen these kinds of gestures up until now," the president said. "The fact that the U.S. administration and I have said we are serious about this, I think has prompted some interesting conversations."
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Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted the proposal when the two leaders met at the G20 summit in St. Petersburg last week. Mr Putin also reportedly offered to work with the U.S. to encourage Mr Assad to submit forward the country's entire stockpile of chemical weapons.
But Mr Obama's right-hand man, Mr Kerry, is more inclined to believe Ms Assad will continue to resist.
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"A resolution will not be found on the military battlefield but at the negotiating table. But we have to get to that table," he said.
"We come to this with years of effort to try to bring the parties to the table and create a political solution. Our respected leaders made clear in St Petersburg that a strong international response is needed to stop Assad using chemical weapons against his own people again."
Mr Obama, apparently, would like to remain hopeful.
"If we can accomplish this limited goal without taking military action, that would be my preference," he said in the CNN interview. "On the other hand, if we don't maintain and move forward without a credible threat of military pressure, I don't think we'll actually get the kind of agreement I'd like to see."
Mr Assad in his interview blasted the U.S. for its shenanigans of war against his country.
"The United States' (credibility) is at an all-time low. This war is against the interests of the United States. Why? First of all this war is going to support al Qaeda and the same people that killed Americans in the 11th of September."
"We have been living in difficult circumstances for the last two years and a half, and we prepare ourselves for every possibility. But that doesn't mean if you're prepared things will get better. It's going to get worse with any foolish strike or stupid war."
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