israel and drum up support among the syrian population with statements like that. they also said that there was international condemnation of what the united states was doing. that of course coming from syrian state tv, which is fully operated by the syrian government. another interesting thing was they put out statements from regular people say they go would support the president. and i know from sources on the ground in damascus that apparently the regime has been sending cars into the streets with people waving syrian flags, trying to drum up support for bashar al assad. the government there has said if attacked it, will retaliate in any way it can. it's unclear how it intends to do that. we've heard from sources on the ground that apparently the syrian military is moving around a lot in the damascus area, potentially trying to bring its hardware at least out of sight of those potential u.s. air strikes. clearly they are very worried about this, they're starting to realize that this attack by the international community, by the united states, is a very real prospect. so right now they're pulling no