Syrian President Assad says no evidence of chemical attack: CBS
Journalists and security personnel stand in front of Yousef al-Azma military hospital during a visit by team of United Nations chemical weapons experts in Damascus August 30, 2013. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri
WASHINGTON | Sun Sep 8, 2013 11:09am EDT
(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied that he was behind a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people and said evidence was not conclusive that there had been such an attack, CBS reported on Sunday on its news program "Face the Nation."
"There has been no evidence that I used chemical weapons against my own people," CBS reported Assad said in an interview conducted in Damascus.
(Editing by Eric Beech)