they re taking sides in the conflict. we have to take it with a grain of salt. they said you have to put the 21st of august fwgas attack in context. they believe it was in retaliation for the massacre of alo alowites. they ve seen pictures. men, women and children were eviscera eviscerated. it was horrible, according to them and not only them, the rebels have gotten close to the hometown of bashar al assad. it panicked him. and number two is, there s some question whether parts of the army are not disintegrating more than they have in the past. there was a seen wrnior command that defected to the rebels, and it s worried the regime. it s made bashar al assad irrational, or whoever fired those chemical weapons. and right after the president s
aleppo, lived in iraq, the powerful or second most powerful disciplined fighters. most well equipped. it captures tanks and anti-aircraft missiles from bases. as it does, the fsa, the secular-led rebel alliance, is very weak. most of its units are corrupt and they re disintegrating. that means isis is going to benefit most from any american attack. so you i think the quote, i m paraphrasing here, what you said, that al qaeda wanted to use a volcano of revenge on the regime. is that correct? why do you say that? actually i didn t say that, but they will want to have a volcano of revenge against the regime because what s going to happen is the regime is going to give up isolated bases of its united states bombs such as the northern province of aleppo. when it retreats into its core areas of the coastal province around the capital of damascus,
dzhokhar was born in cars stan but left. israel has not commented. israeli officials long vowed to strike targets they think was used to transfer targets to hezbollah or other terrorists groups. what i can say is we have a clear policy. if the syria regime tries to transfer chemical weapons or game-changing weaponry, israel will not remain passive, and they are very serious about it. now to los angeles where a gast-growing wildfire has
money at this race even if it is a losing caught. moving on. at a news conference that ended up marking the first 100 days of the second term president obama met the press, no set agenda, didn t offer opening statement. felt the need they would get a bunch of questions out of the way and it began with the most pressing issue as the president tried to clarify his position on syria, an issue that may very well dominate the next 100 days and it is all about what is the red line and how he will go about defending that red line if it is proven the syria regime has used chemical weapons. here is what he said. when i am making decisions about america s national security and the potential for
weapons found in iraq back in 2003, intelligence assessments the white house says alone are not sufficient, only credible and corroborated facts that provide us with some degree of certainty will guide our decision making and strengthen our leadership of the international community. barbara starr s our pentagon correspondent. barbara, our viewers know in recent weeks and months the president has said if there s evidence of u ched by the syria regime or transferred to terrorist groups, that s a red line for the u.s., a game-changer if you will that would force the u.s. to take certain steps. what are you hearing over at t ntagon? well, wolf, i think most americans have exactly that question, does this mean u.s. troops could be headed into another war in the middle east? the moment. they want to get more information about all of this. there are other options for the u.s., diplomatic options to step up the pressure on assad, but