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(29,876 posts) Wed Sep 4, 2013, 04:59 PM Sep 2013

Russia'a Putin Calls John Kerry A Liar On Syria [View all]

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry a liar for denying that al-Qaida was fighting with the Syrian opposition in that country's civil war.

Speaking Wednesday to his human rights council, Putin recalled watching a congressional debate where Kerry was asked about al-Qaida and denied that it was operating in Syria, even though he was aware of the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group.

Putin said: "This was very unpleasant and surprising for me. We talk to them (the Americans) and we assume they are decent people, but he is lying and he knows that he is lying. This is sad."

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Russia'a Putin Calls John Kerry A Liar On Syria [View all] Purveyor Sep 2013 OP

Because Putin is such a truthful, trustworthy fellow. /nt Drale Sep 2013 #1

Well, I've read that al Qaeda is affiliated with snappyturtle Sep 2013 #4

No. He's not. bunnies Sep 2013 #5

AQ and affiliates are a fragement of the Syrian resistance Harmony Blue Sep 2013 #2

They dominate the opposition. David__77 Sep 2013 #12

the opposition has "increasingly become more defined by its moderation ? dipsydoodle Sep 2013 #3

A liar calls a liar a liar. News at 11! last1standing Sep 2013 #6

This one was good, too jakeXT Sep 2013 #7

Kerry didn't say that - he said they'd work with the moderate opposition blm Sep 2013 #8

Do the facts really matter? ProSense Sep 2013 #9

He said jakeXT Sep 2013 #13

�I just don�t agree that the majority are al-Qaeda or bad guys, that�s just not true,� Kerry said. ProSense Sep 2013 #14

So he is saying it was more in the past and is getting better ? jakeXT Sep 2013 #15

Now there is a guy even more trustworthy than Putin. n/t ProSense Sep 2013 #16

Someone is lying or not doing their job...either Kerry or State Dept, Homeland Security or McCaul jakeXT Sep 2013 #21

Kerry denied that the Syrian opposition is degrading into Al-Qaeda Bolo Boffin Sep 2013 #17

We get what he meant ...I posted what K. said..If it's a least untruthful answer, history will show jakeXT Sep 2013 #20

The factions THEY are working with are increasingly more moderate. blm Sep 2013 #18

So if you stop working with them, they just magically disappear ? poof, here are our 50 new CIA jakeXT Sep 2013 #19

Gawd, even the complicit MSM can't keep up with all the lies now Catherina Sep 2013 #10

Attacking Al-Qaeda in Syria FarCenter Sep 2013 #11