military intelligence officers who will compare the scope of weapons arsenal with the u.s. looking at start for signs of how soon syrian president assad will allow international access to relevant sites and how honest he is in the nooishl account. given the track record, any commitment made by the regime must be treated with great caution. assad filed paperwork to begin the process of joining the 197 chemical weapons convention. syria s u.n. ambassador believed that was all that was required. syria has become starting today a full member of the convention. from switzerland, secretary of state john kerry placed telephone calls to the top leaders of the forces, political and military swings telling the president that kerry was going into meetings in a skeptical state of mind and also president barack obama threat to use
every action has a reaction. i wonder if this is a case putin overplayed his hand finally. when you have republicans and democrats on the hill all reacting the same way. maybe he pushed the united states a little closer to some kind of military strike that the president seemed to be wiggling out of a day ago. when while the conversation is continuing with the foreign minister of russia and john kerry in geneva. senator john mccain s tweet says he refuses to acknowledge assad s responsibility for chemical weapon attacks. that s progress. we heard from the head of the rebel group. take a listen to what he said about a call with secretary kerry. they are wasting time.
they are lying to do the strikes against regime in damascus. we re preparing ourselves for new offensive in syria. kerry told them basically we re going to check this out, but strikes may still happen. one of the commanders of the army that commands the free syrian army said the revolution is dead and sold. he meant the people all assumed until now that assad would go, that he d be gone. right now everybody understands that what the russians have succeeded in doing is making assad get a second lease on life, the recognition he didn t have. i add one word about why it is
possessed the weapon, it was thought to be the most serious diplomatic gesture he s made during long months of fighting. this might give hoep there s a way to negotiate out of this syrian crisis. still assad s assertion he would only negotiate if u.s. dropped the military strike threats led some to pray for peace. like this church, gregory iii has been watching anxiously in the predominantly christian down north of damascus. many others have been caught in the shelling. the group in part of the syrian population are the christians. they are few. they are without arms. they submit more signs the trouble is far from over. saudi arabia began to delay