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Several Chadian army officers, led by General Idriss Abdéramane Dicko, refuse to recognise the authority of the Transitional Military Council, led by Mahamat Idriss Déby. The political crisis in Chad is becoming even more entrenched. While Mahamat Idriss Deby took the head of the Military Transitional Council after the death of his father, the Chadian opposition denounces it as a coup. This choice is far from being unanimous, even within the armed forces. General Idriss Abdéramane Dicko and several officers of the Chadian army are now said to categorically refuse to legitimise this takeove...

Fighters in syria, possibly as many as 2,500 now fighting on behalf of assad. wolf? >> dangerous situation continuing. chris lawrence, thanks very much. >> yep. >> and george little is joining us now. he's the pentagon press secretary. george, thanks very much for coming in. >> thank you, wolf. good to be here. >> general idriss, who runs this free syrian army, he said today, he told our christiane amanpour, he has information that the syrians have already started to send some of their chemical weapons stockpiles to lebanon and to iraq. what do you say about that? >> i wouldn't want to get int...

That opposition. bashar al assad is drawing his own red line. he'll only agree to dismantle his country's chemical weapons if the u.s. stops arming rebels and takes the threat of force off the table. >> this bilateral process is based first of all on the united states stopping its policy of threatening syria. >> reporter: the obama administration is showing no signs of making its military stand down. >> force might be necessary. >> reporter: and a u.s. official says the cia has begun sending actual weapons to syrian rebels. >> we are getting now a lot of of support from our american friends. >...

>> the question, of course, since when has vladimir putin cared about his credibility? here to discuss the politics of putin, host of npr's left, right and center, matt miller, rebecca heinrich and max fisher of "washington post." max, does putin care about his credibility? >> no. i mean, he's not running for the senate here. what he's trying to do is put his thumb on the domestic american debate over whether to strike syria. the thing you have to understand about this is everything that's happening right now between the u.s. and russia is a negotiation over syria. the cia arming the rebels, p...