Bashar Assad announces victory over western plot

Syrian President Bashar Assad announced success in defusing the plots hatched by the foreign enemies to overthrow the government in Damascus, and vowed to continue his reforms in the country.\"Thanks to the unity of the Army and awareness of the people, the plot in Syria was shattered,\" Assad said in a meeting with a number of Lebanese political figures in Damascus on Tuesday. He also promised the Syrian people that he would continue reforms in the country, and said a Constitution Reforms Committee would be set up this week to specify and decide proper reforms and revisionist ideas for the country. Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country. Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes. The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad. The US and the European Union have been criticizing Damascus throughout the unrest, accusing of repressive rule. The Western alliance recently went so far as calling for Assad\'s ouster and threatening the sovereign country with wide-ranging economic sanctions and foreign military invasion. Turkey as a NATO member has also warned on various occasions that it would take action against Bashar al-Assad\'s government. Meantime, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmad Davutoglu threatened the western countries that if Syria comes under a NATO attack, it would set fire on the Middle-East, specially Israel. \"If a crazy measure is taken against Damascus, I will need not more than 6 hours to transfer hundreds of rockets and missiles to the Golan Heights to fire them at Tel Aviv,\" Assad said after Davutoglu conveyed the United States\' warning message to him. He also reiterated that Damascus will also call on Hezbollah in Lebanon to launch such an intensive rocket and missile attack on Israel that the Israeli spy agencies could never imagine.  \"All these events will happen in three hours, but in the second three hours, Iran will attack the US warships in the Persian Gulf and the US and European interests will be targeted simultaneously,\" Assad said.