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Today it reaffirmed israels policy to continue to strike any attempt to strike us. israels intelligence minister echoed the prime ministers message saying israel sent a clear message to iran that it wont tolerate the iranian military in its backyard. iran is a close ally of syria and sent equipment and troops to support the regime of basharal assad. syrian observatory for human rights says israels airstrikes killed at least six syrian troops and airfighters. local media are underscoring that sat...

President bashar a l- assad. he practiced in a hospital in london and became president of syria in 2,000 after his father died. he promised to increase personal and economic freedoms and never delivered on the promises. >> and a bizarre fire fight. what is behind the crazy video of flying fire balls. more on that. and plus international support for a strike on syria is limited. can president obama win over reluctant allies to deliver a international coalition. and well see how this affects the s...

It will sti be an islamic civil war. that will not change no matter what obama does. >> julie, as you listen to the speech and the reassurances to the american public. americans can decide for themselves. we are taking an unprecedented step of declassifying some information and look at it and decide if the attack took place it did with high levels of confidence. and said that the action has to be swift, serious and must accomplish what? >> that is a great question. i agree with what andy just sa...

The ground in syria saying that at least 25 people have been killed in syria today. other reports are saying higher. many more people are injured as well. clashes between anti-government protesters and government security forces, live ammunition, we are told, are being used against the demonstrators, and it is happening in clashes all across the country including -- and this is important -- the very heart of the capital of syria, damascus. at the center of it all, the embattled syrian president,...

That it has happened again. again, here is the president. >> my fellow americans. a short time ago, i ordered the united states armed forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of syrian dictator bashar a l- assad. a combined operation with the armed forces of france and the united kingdom is now under way. we thank them both. tonight, i want to speak with you about why we have taken this action. one year ago, assad launched a savage chemical ...

Gas. president basharal assad has 60 days to use it before it expires and needs to be used. it suffocates victims by paralyzing the muscles around their lungs and is 500 times more toxic than cyanide. the military source tells us the gas in syria is believed to be in aerosol form which means it is in canisters that can be dropped from airplanes. we are told by middle eastern diplomatic sources that middle eastern countries are trying to find a place to give assad asylum. the u.s. military is mak...