syrians for those attacks, so many people including some analysts here are saying they don't expect any retaliation, but of course, on the streets, that's not what you hear people are saying, we will be defiant, we will strike back and we know that syria has allies in iran. in hezbollah. that are quite capable of doing something like that. one interesting point, wolf, we've had silence from president assad for the last couple of days, but i did see today an iranian delegation, which is said to include their security chief, as well as their ambassador to syria, that said they had just met president assad. why were they meeting president assad? we don't know and certainly, they weren't telling us. >> bill, i want you to stand by in damascus. bill is one of the few western journalists in the syrian capital right now. we're going to touch base with him throughout our special live coverage here on cnn. be careful over there, bill, we'll be joining you shortly.