Abdul Haleem Khaddam, the former deputy to the Syrian president, stated that he does not rule out the possibility of the Syrian regime using chemical weapons against its own people after losing to the Syrian rebels.
Khaddam, in a statement to the Jordanian electronic newspaper “Al-Maqar” on Wednesday morning, affirmed that Bashar al-Assad’s regime has definitively fallen. However, he suggested that the regime’s calculations may change in its final stages, especially regarding the use of chemical weapons. He pointed out that the regime is in disarray and will seek to save itself as long as the revolution prevails over it.
Khaddam said, “In all the rules of revolutions, the survival of such a regime is considered impossible, but Assad is trying to change the rules and ethics of revolutions by resorting to more bloodshed.”
Khaddam accused the Syrian regime of pushing the country into sectarian strife in hopes of survival. He emphasized that the regime has fallen conclusively, while simultaneously expecting Assad’s end to be worse than Gaddafi’s.
Khaddam criticized the neighboring countries of Syria, which focus on the possibility of the Assad regime using such weapons, forgetting that the Syrian people have been killed by it for more than 80,000 citizens to date.
