Former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam said yesterday that it is not unlikely for the Syrian regime to use chemical weapons against its people after losing to the Syrian rebels.
The independent Jordanian online newspaper Al-Maqar quoted Khaddam, who defected from the ruling regime in Damascus, as saying in a statement that Bashar al-Assad’s regime has fallen definitively, but its calculations may change in its final stage regarding the use of chemical weapons. He pointed out that the regime is in turmoil and will seek to save itself as long as the revolution is victorious against it.
Khaddam added that in all the rules of revolutions, the survival of such a regime is considered impossible, but Assad is trying to change the rules and principles of revolutions by resorting to more bloodshed. He accused the Syrian regime of pushing the country into sectarian fighting in hopes of staying in power, emphasizing that it has fallen definitively. Khaddam expected Assad’s end to be worse than Gaddafi’s. He expressed his disappointment with the neighboring countries of Syria, which focus on the possibility of the Assad regime using such weapons and forget that the Syrian people have been killed by them until now, with more than 80,000 casualties.