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Take the chance and getting israel involved in this kind of war. >> the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu, saying this week if that were to happen, if israel were attacked, israel he says would respond ferociously to any such attack. all right, guys, thanks very much. avivfrenkel. up next, every day the world talks about a strike on syria, the bashar al assad regime is preparing for it and possibly planning its response. plus, the man suspected of orchestrating some of the worst atrocities, we're digging deeper on bashar al assad's brother. you're watching a "the situation room" s...

A consequential impact, those chemical weapons are likely to be transferred to hezbollah. as you know, hezbollah is a foreign terrorist organization. the worst possible outcome for the united states and the west in general is for these chemical weapons to transfer from assad to hezbollah. >> my fear is that if there's only a very, very limited attack and there's no follow-on that the assad regime could come out of this thinking, okay, so as long as i no longer use chemical weapons, i can do whatever i want. >> but the u.s. attack is largely in the -- supporters of the united nations. but with ...

Syria in the eastern mediterranean. let's go to the pentagon. barbara starr is getting more information. what are you learning? >> reporter: another u.s. navy warship in place tonight off the coast of syria. the "u.s.s. san antonio" has come through the suez canal, 300 marines on board, part of the so-called prudent planning in advance of any u.s. military action. they will stay put for the next several days right there. but it is the intelligence everyone is focusing on tonight. an extraordinary level of detail about human intercepts, satellite intelligence, all kinds of intelligence that the...

Chemical weapons use while insisting he hasn't made a final decision on military action. but if you listen to the secretary of state, john kerry, it certainly does sound like there's a done deal in the works already. listen to this powerful statement, a call to action which the syrian government calls nothing but fabrications. >> our intelligence community has carefully reviewed and rereviewed information regarding this attack, and i will tell you it has done so more than mindful of the iraq experience. we will not repeat that moment. with our own eyes we have seen the thousands of reports fro...

They feel by the strike. >> if it's a limited attack, i think the likelihood hezbollah responding is much, much lez. but if hezbollah interests are hit, if key regime interests are hit and hezbollah believes this is really affecting the assad's regime to stay in power, you could see hezbollah doing any one of a number of things. they could fire some rockets at israel. they may do that anyway. theoretically, if they're severe attacks and hezbollah is really threatened, they could decide to target western interests, most likely in the region. >> so we're at a point now where no matter what we do...