{"id":6786,"date":"2013-03-18T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2025-05-27T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:42:23","slug":"video-odfs-director-speaks-out-on-lbc-radio-on-the-arming-of-syrian-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/video-odfs-director-speaks-out-on-lbc-radio-on-the-arming-of-syrian-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: ODFS Director speaks out on LBC Radio on the arming of Syrian Rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ribal Al-Assad tells LBC radio why we shouldn&#039;t be arming Syria&#039;s rebels\u200e\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ldP02kx0ng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today Ribal Al-Assad, Director of ODFS spoke on LBC Radio against the arming of Rebels in Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to LBC&#8217;s Iain Dale, Ribal stated in response to the suggestion of France and the U.K. arming the rebel army:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We should not arm any sides, I have been calling from the beginning that the only solution is a political one. We first of all need to know who the Free Syrian Army are&#8230; we have to be very careful, there are a lot of foreign extremists coming from Saudi Arabia and Chechnya who are brining weapons into rebel hands&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full interview is available above.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Ribal Al-Assad, Director of ODFS spoke on LBC Radio against the arming of Rebels in Syria. Speaking to LBC&#8217;s Iain Dale, Ribal stated in response to the suggestion of France and the U.K. arming the rebel army: &#8220;We should not arm any sides, I have been calling from the beginning that the only solution [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6805,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions\/6805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}