On the audio tape, he answered Captain Brannon's questions about what kind of armaments were aboard the Russian intelligence ship Liman.
Robert Brannon, a senior American naval attaché here, and discussing what kind of armaments were aboard a Russian intelligence ship sent to the Balkans during the NATO military campaign in 1999.
They have almost unlimited access to the right kind of armaments and materiel, from rocket launchers and portable anti-aircraft missiles, to the ingredients for sophisticated roadside bombs and anti-tank rockets – and they know how to use them.
You have terrorists coming with very sophisticated armaments, nearly all kinds of armaments that they can carry with them and started killing people, destroying infrastructure, destroying public places, everything.
He admitted that he kept his basement stocked with a variety of "armaments".
"The problem is that right now the kind of support and armament that we are getting is not to the level where it can help the Peshmergas fight this enemy, especially when they have these armoured vehicles.
What they really want, though, are anti-tank missiles and anti-aircraft systems, the kinds of sophisticated armaments that the West worries might end up in the hands of Islamic extremists, either inside Syria or elsewhere.
"It's about preventing other countries, especially Turkey, from sending more recruits, more terrorists, more armaments, or any kind of logistical support to those terrorists," Assad said in English in the interview, which was also carried by state news agency SANA.
Albert Thomas was French Minister of Armament during World War I.
Fitting-out, including completion of the superstructure and the installation of armament, lasted until August 1911.
