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The military planning includes a scenario for a no-fly zone as well as protecting chemical and biological sites. Officials say all the scenarios would be difficult to enact and involve large numbers of U.S. troops and extended operations
Equivocation in words and actions usually makes the mission harder, more costly and deadlier. Recent examples abound. Former president Bill Clinton Surely must regret failing to inhibit the Rawanda genocide, allowing the Balkans disaster to play out and only halfheartedly trying to capture Osama bin laden.
For Putin, NATO’s invasion of Libya was equivalent to the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Third Reich and that of Syria, should it occur, would be comparable to the invasion of Poland that started WWII.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has accused Russia of sending attack helicopters to Syria, warning that the shipment "will escalate the conflict quite dramatically." Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has rejected Clinton's claim, saying that Russia is only shipping air defense systems under previously signed contracts.
The State Department has acknowledged that Russia did not send new helicopters to Syria, only delivering a batch of repaired machines.
The message is clear : Moscow is ready for world war if NATO and the GCC do not comply with the international obligations as defined in the Annan Plan and persist in aiding terrorism.
Once rolling it will be carried out barring any other external influence (Russia, China for instance).
The State Department has acknowledged that Russia did not send new helicopters to Syria, only delivering a batch of repaired machines.
The opposition claim of casualties emerged as the Syrian government warned of possible suicide bomb attacks against mosques in Damascus following its arrest of a man with ties to the Al Nusra Front, a group the government says has ties to al Qaeda.
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The observatory said the deaths were the result of a shell explosion. A video posted by the group shows what it calls the aftermath, bloodied bodies on a sidewalk and street. The camera operator says the carnage resulted from a Syrian army shell hitting protesters.
The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), however, said "an armed terrorist group detonated two explosive devices" outside the mosque.