damascus. and research and development capabilities inside damascus. it is important to realize because it speaks to degrading a capability that could sustain chemical attacks. we have thu information on the duration of strikes. what are you learning? that s right. anderson just spoke to an administration official that said this isn t over. this is is not the end of the u.s. response to syria s chemical attacks. this response likely to be multi-wave, not a single wave.
firing in towards damascus. that s what we ll be looking for. yeah. he is in northern syria. to barbara s point they did talk about a sustained effort. he didn t say a sustained military effort. he mentioned diplomatic. clearly the president wanting to telegraph this is going to be not just sort of a one off effort, that et is some sort of a sustained effort in order to stop syria in the future from using chemical weapons. absolutely. until the regime stops its use. we have been hearing from an eyewitness explosions as donald
we are talking about radar and missiles that could be used to target u.s. pilots, u.s. cruise missiles coming into the area. and let me just tell you, we are also learning that witnesses are telling that explosions are being heard in damascus, the capital. right. this is what we have been watching for. it is every indication going after some of the power structure that controls the chemical weapon. i think it s fair to say you will not see u.s. pilots. it is way too heavy and way too risky. it would be capable of standing off back in the mediterranean
13 missiles. this is whatyou served in sea e embassy in damascus. what stands out to you tonight. i would discount much of the what the syrians are saying. they claim this all of the time. they maven gauged the missiles and may have even hit some. but 13 we don t know how many were launched. so we ll see what happens there. i did want to talk to the tar t targeting of this. if you remember a year ago, we struck sherrod air base is isolated base off the beaten path. so the risk to for civilian casualties was fairly low. what we re hitting right now, messy air base, jeremiah, these are research and development facilities in the center of damascus. so the fact we feel confident
down here. this is where the strikes came from. i think what s important to realize here, as well, is that russian forces in syria are co-located in many locations where syrian forces are. what we see here, this indicates, this indicates that russian forces are here and it s a location where syrian forces are. we have strike packages that might be going into locations like this or in damascus where you have proximity. you need to have standoff. we do not want to war with russia. lieutenant rick francona with us, military analyst and former military attach a in damascus, and flowsenior fellow and milit expert, thank you for being here. colonel fran cone athe u.s. has francona, the u.s. says it avoid the targets to avoid the forces. can you tell us how that