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Trying to prepare for. this we heard what jennifer had to stay in terms of the military movements, but also on the ground you are seeing a lot of the regimes prop began darks syrian state tv is showing all sorts of military exercises, trying to talk about the prowess of the syrian military. trying to talk up the amount of support the regime has. certainly a big part of their propaganda machine. lastly, inside damascus, we hear of some people going out to stock up, get ready for things, buy bread...

A.m. in damascus, which means those inspectors could in theory be out already or will be in the next few hours. that might remove one of the last impediments to president obama ordering a military strike. the inspectors are bringing out with them all the samples and evidence that they have collected. those, according to u.n. officials, will be taken to labs in europe for exhaustive analysis. listen. before the mission can draw conclusions about this incident. available information la bore tore a...

Mediterranean including now the uss san antonio. thats a marine amphibious warship. its joined the other naval assets. this vessel does not carry missiles there are 300 marines on board just in case. >> it will not involve any boots on ground. it will not be open-ended. and it will not assume responsibility for a civil war that is already well underway. >> the pentagon and the u.s. navy is essentially standing by awaiting orders from the president. it is unlikely that the president would order a...

Were talking about damascus. were talking about something that to me seems like -- at least it feels like wow, are we entering into something thats rapidly escalating here? i guess the question everybody is asking is whats going on right now? >> i think this is quite a significant escalation in that now we see direct strikes against, you know, damascus itself, the mountains where you have some of the heaviest concentrations of the elite forces of the regime. and just by looking at the pictures a...

Bomb exploded nearby, at least 16 people killed, many of those women and children. you can see the video provided by syrian state tv shows the destruction there. and this shows how president assads regime is beginning to lose control. the thread is unraveling as the rebels are unable to now launch attacks over and over inside damascus. two car bombs in the past two days. historically, these have been carried out by a former al-qaeda in iraq syndicate group using fighters who were trained in iraq...

Announcing new financial sanctions on the assad regime for weapons proliferation. this after a deadly attack in the capital of damascus. syrias rebel commander say his forces were behind a homicide bombing that ripped through a high level meeting of cabinet ministers and senior security officials, killing the defense minister and president assads brother-in-law in the harshest blow to the governments inner circle since the uprising began 16 months ago. defense secretary leon panetta says the u.s...

Policies, all sides, all sectors need to be directed at winning this war what we have seen and heard about is a real escalation in the past few days of a syrian military offensive against the armed opposition in this country. its happening throughout the nation. the military is using a range of weaponry from big to small. even for the first time in the suburbs around where we are right now in the capital of damascus, heavy artillery. all of this has kept the u.n. observer mission grounded except...

Armed forces after this incident. we are not a country which will remain silent and sit idle without anything in the face of an attack claim. inside syria is also rapidly spiraling deeper inside to chaos. rebels launch president bashar assad came before his cabinet and told it that the uprising in syria is, quote, a real situation of war. greg palkot with the news streaming live from inside damascus like all western journalists in the country. greg is there with permission of the syrian regime w...

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This, is the importance of helicopters. why is the united states now making such a big deal about helicopters. and it has to do with the fundamental strategy of the uprising in syria right now. i was speaking this morning to syrian activists and they say that the country is basically in a state of collapse. businesses arent functioning, the roads arent open. people arent really going to school. except in a few pockets. so the country is collapsing from, on a day-to-day perspective. the strategy ...