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in a rare television interview with cbs he denies using chemical weapons and wouldn't confirm or deny whether his country has them. u.s. intelligence believes syria has one of the largest stockpiles including thousand of tons of agents. neighboring israel is taking additional precautions deploying it's iron dome missile defense system on the outskirts of jerusalem. connor, why is israel now taking another step? >> well, as things were heating up two weeks ago israel repositioned one of it's iron dome anti-missile systems outside of tel aviv but with the threat of a u.s. strike on syria once again looming israel is not taking any precautions. with the possibility of a u.s. strike, israel is concerned that jerusalem, which is an area that's not normally targeted by
militants whether from gaza or hezbollah could be a target this time. so they moved this iron dome anti-missile system just outside of jerusalem. now militants obviously rarely attack jerusalem because it is the home to both christians and muslims and jews. it's a holy city for all three faiths. israel's leaders do fear as the tensions are mounting here in the middle east, particularly with syria and the threats coming from the assad regime and tehran and iran things could get nasty here and there's a real sense across the nation here in israel and across the region that if u.s. does strike syria things could get bad quickly. israel not taking any chances here by moving that iron dome system to jerusalem. >> on the flip side of this, even if we don't take military action the war 2 1/2 years old in syria rages on. >> it really does. there's been a lot of talk about chemical weapons and red lines and u.s. credibility. but on the ground in syria it's