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Arrested. apparently he was shihiding in baseme basement. arthel: right now mounting tensions in syria as the asad regime and rebel forces blaming each other after a vehicle belonging to a u.n. inspection team was hit by sniper fire in damascus while on its way to the site where government forces reportedly killed hundreds of people last week in a chemical attack. senior defense officials telling fox the u.s. november now has four destroyers in the eastern mediterranean off the coast of syria. rick is a former state department spokesperson and a fellow with the project to restore america. good...

Attack occurred to try to really, i think, scare away the u.n. and scare away people who would investigate and so i think it's pretty clear that the asad government is behind it. arthel: and it's pretty clear at this moment it's not scared away the u.n. weapons inspectors, that they're going to continue course but the jerusalem bureau is reporting it might be a little too late even if they do make it to those fights for fear that evidence has been destroyed or degraded. what do you make of that? how would that affect this whole exploration? >> well, we have to remember that the team in syria, ...

He can't quite make a decision once he hears multiple sides. arthel: so you have the navy warships sitting there in the eastern mediterranean. should there be a strategic firing of missiles on targets there inside of syria? what should happen? when should it happen? >> well, i think military experts are pretty clear that we can't just do a surgical targeted attack. that's not going to be enough. and i think that the american public needs to understand that if we're going to take out asad, which i believe that we should, that we'll have to take out all of the military bases or at least the majo...

Adviser and deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush and also a fox news contributor. a little ironic that this president largely won office on the strength of his opposition to the war in iraq and now finds himself facing a possible military intervention in syria. what do you make of the situation that faces it? >> not a lot of good options and it's to some degree of his own making. remember over two years ago, he said asad must go. if you're the president of the united states and you say that, eventually, sooner rather than later, that person needs to go. otherwise, your credibility...

To work through nato and also we have reports that four tons of light arms weapons have been delivered from the gulf states through turkey to the rebels in the northern part of syria. arthel: speaking of turkey, looking at the wire, syrian opposition figures saying that geneva peace talks off the table for now after alleged poison gas attacks so it keeps going. asad is there and doesn't seem to be blinking but i ask you this, at least at this point, jennifer, is there a military option that falls short of an all-out war but sends a significant message to asad? >> well, that appears to be what ...