Source of report on Syria getting S-300: Assad himself

The source for the earlier report that Syria has already received the Russian S-300 missile system is Bashar al-Assad himself, in an interview to be broadcast Thursday evening on Lebanon's and Hezbullah's al-Manar television. Here are more details.

Syria received the first shipment of long-range S-300 anti-aircraft
missiles from Russia, and would receive the rest "soon," Syrian
President