18 Quotes by Imad Moustapha

We believe that it will happen sooner than you might expect.

What they want to do is ... keep on repeating them day in, day out, every day, every day, and some people will eventually end up believing them.

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States,

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States. This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

Let me first thank President Bush for his concern about Lebanon and the fair and free elections that will happen in May, ... Now President Bush can focus his attention on the really terrible occupation of the Palestinian territories and the occupation of Syrian territories and Lebanese territories by Israel.

Shops were ransacked, cars were burned, schools were burned, hospitals were burned. Yes, lots of people were arrested, and this is a normal reaction. It would happen everywhere in the world, including the United States itself when it had riots in its major cities. Now these people will face criminal charges, and if they are found guilty they will bear the consequences of their deeds. If not, they will be released, just like any judicial process in the world.

There is no hesitation about this, as the political decision has been taken. We are withdrawing every single official from Lebanon, whether he is a regular army soldier, or whether he is in the security or intelligence forces.

Right now nobody, even in Damascus itself, knows the actual timetable,

Please help us free this region from all weapons of mass destruction. ... Please inspect every country in the Middle East, ... You know very well that Israel is stockpiling nuclear weapons.