Syria's Bashar al-Assad says chemical attack '100 per cent fabrication'

DAMASCUS: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town was a "fabrication" to justify a US military strike.

"Definitely, 100 per cent for us, it's fabrication... Our impression is that the West, mainly the United States, is hand-in-glove with the terrorists. They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack," Assad said yesterday, in his first interview since American cruise missiles hit a central Syrian air base.

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