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| Assad says any US strike on Syria "is going to support al Qaeda" - CBS News Posted: 09 Sep 2013 08:28 AM PDT (CBS News) In an exclusive interview with CBS News' Charlie Rose, President Bashar Assad said he is "disappointed" in the Obama administration for pursuing a strike against Syria, claiming faulty intelligence and a foreign policy comparable with the policy of former President George W. Bush. He also said any U.S. involvement in Syria's two-year-old civil war would only embolden America's enemies. At first offering a more tempered argument against a U.S. strike, Assad explained it would not serve U.S. security interests. "The first question that they should ask [themselves], what do wars give America?...Nothing. No political gain, no economic gain, no good reputation. United States' credibility is at...[an] all-time low. So this war is against the interests of the United States," Assad said. "Why?" Assad: I'm no "butcher," I'm like a doctor who saves lives The Syrian president again called on the U.S. and Congress to present hard evidence proving a chemical attack was launched within Syria and warned that a strike against Syria would only foster the growth of al Qaeda within his borders. "First of all, because this is the war that is going to support Al Qaeda and the same people that kill Americans in the 11 of September. The second thing that we all want to tell to the Congress, that they should ask and that what we expect, we expect them to ask this administration about the evidence that they have regarding the chemical story and the allegations that they presented," Assad said. President Assad said he and the Syrian people are "disappointed" by President Obama's behavior, and compared his foreign policy to that of former President George W. Bush. "We expected this administration [to be] different from Bush's administration," he said. However, "they are operating the same doctrine with different accessories. That's it. We expect if...[this administration] to be strong to say that 'We don't have evidence, that we have to obey...the international law, that we have to go back to the security council at the United Nations.'" If he found himself face-to-face with President Obama, Assad told Rose, he would simply tell him:" "Present what you have as evidence to the public. Be transparent." "He didn't present because he doesn't have have [it]," Assad said. "Kerry doesn't have it." Responding to Charlie Rose's claims that evidence has been presented to Congress, including satellite footage and intercepted messages, Assad repeated several times, "nothing has been presented," eventually adding that even if the U.S. did present seemingly credible evidence, he would doubt its veracity. "We have the precedent of Colin Powell ten years ago when he showed the evidence, it was false and it was forged," Assad said. "You want me to believe American evidence and don't believe the indication that we have? We live here." |
| New van Gogh painting discovered: 'Sunset at Montmajour' - CNN Posted: 09 Sep 2013 08:49 AM PDT  Van Gogh Museum director Axel Ruger, and senior researcher Louis van Tilborgh, right, unveil the newly discovered painting by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh during a press conference at the museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday September 9, 2013. HIDE CAPTION Under the cover, a new van Gogh painting Under the cover, a new van Gogh painting Under the cover, a new van Gogh painting STORY HIGHLIGHTS
(CNN) -- More than 120 years after Vincent van Gogh's death, a new painting by the Dutch master has come to light. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the largest collection of the artist's work, announced Monday the discovery of the newly identified painting, a landscape titled "Sunset at Montmajour." "A discovery of this magnitude has never before occurred in the history of the Van Gogh Museum," the museum's director, Axel Ruger, said in a statement. Van Gogh is believed to have completed the relatively large painting in 1888, two years before his death and during "a period that is considered by many to be the culmination of his artistic achievement," Ruger said. The picture depicts a landscape in the vicinity of Arles in the south of France, where van Gogh was working at that time, the museum said. Museum discovers 'new' van Gogh painting Ruger said the museum attributed the painting to van Gogh after "extensive research into style, technique, paint, canvas, the depiction, van Gogh's letters and the provenance." Starting September 24, it will appear in "Van Gogh At Work," an exhibition currently on show at the museum in Amsterdam. From the 'Sunflowers' period Van Gogh (1853-1890) crafted some of the world's best known and most loved paintings, including "Sunflowers," "Irises" and "Starry Night," and a number of self-portraits. He painted "Sunset at Montmajour" during the same period in which he produced "Sunflowers," Ruger said. Van Gogh achieved little recognition as an artist during his lifetime, but his reputation blossomed in the years after his suicide at the age of 37, following years of mental illness. His works now hang in leading museums and galleries around the world. During the art market boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s, three of van Gogh's works succeeded each other as the most expensive paintings ever sold: "Sunflowers" for $39.9 million, "Irises" for $53.9 million and "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" for $82.5 million. In its statement, the Van Gogh Museum didn't divulge the full story behind the discovery of "Sunset at Montmajour," saying it would be published in the October edition of The Burlington Magazine, a fine art publication, and at the museum. Louis van Tilborgh and Teio Meedendorp, two senior researchers at the museum, said the painting had belonged to the collection of van Gogh's younger brother, Theo, in 1890 and was sold in 1901. Saving van Gogh's home from dereliction |
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