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applegrove

(118,589 posts)
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 10:32 PM Aug 2013

U.S. Warships Move Toward Syria - Loubna Mrie/Reuters

U.S. Warships Move Toward Syria

by Loubna Mrie/Reuters at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheets/2013/08/23/cheat-sheet.html#3

"SNIP..........................

As the Obama administration weighed a military response to the Syrian conflict, the commander of U.S. forces in the Mediterranean has ordered warships closer to Syria in case the Pentagon green lights a cruise missile strike. Tomorrow, Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey is expected to present options for a strike. The news of a possible escalation came a day after reports of a suspected chemical-weapons attack that killed hundreds of civilians in the war-torn country. In an interview with CNN Friday, Obama said U.S. officials were gathering information on yesterday's attack, but that "what we've seen indicates that this is clearly a big event of grave concern."

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U.S. Warships Move Toward Syria - Loubna Mrie/Reuters (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2013 OP
Now if only I can find an article that Russian Warships are responding in kind we can get this Purveyor Aug 2013 #1
I guess it's just me, I have a thing about genocide. applegrove Aug 2013 #2
As do I when the actually 'perps' are identified. eom Purveyor Aug 2013 #3
 

Purveyor

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1. Now if only I can find an article that Russian Warships are responding in kind we can get this
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 10:49 PM
Aug 2013

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