War
on terror/ Bolstering radicals
Syria President Bashar Assad has claimed Israel is
perpetrating attacks in the war-torn country in order to bolster radical
Islamist forces that seek to topple his regime.
In a
preview of an interview with American magazine Foreign Affairs set
to be published Monday, Assad said "it is very clear" that Israel's
agenda is to back rebel forces.
He
accused Israel of conducting air strikes in Syria, saying "whenever we
make advances in some place, they attack in order to undermine the army. It’s
very clear."
"That’s
why some in Syria joke, 'How can you say that al-Qaida doesn’t have an air
force? They have the Israeli air force'," he told Foreign Affairs.
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