Assad: Business as usual

In yet another TV interview, this time for French TV channel France 2, Syria's beleaguered president Bashar al-Assad denied using chemical warfare insisting that his forces "only use conventional weapons": I am an old fashioned kind of ruler, especially when it comes to killing my own citizens. I'd go door to door with a hatchet myself if I could spare the time! He also accused France of “supporting terrorists who kill Syrian citizens” saying indicatively: It is completely unacceptable for them to be meddling in Syria's internal affairs, harming our people, I am the one who has been elected to do that!