London Telegraph
August 26, 2013
Royal Navy vessels are being readied to take part in a possible
series of cruise missile strikes, alongside the United States, as
military commanders finalise a list of potential targets.
Government sources said talks between the Prime Minister and
international leaders, including Barack Obama, would continue, but that
any military action that was agreed could begin within the next week.
As the preparations gathered pace, William Hague, the Foreign
Secretary, warned that the world could not stand by and allow the Assad
regime to use chemical weapons against the Syrian people “with
impunity”.
Britain, the US and their allies must show Mr Assad that to
perpetrate such an atrocity “is to cross a line and that the world will
respond when that line is crossed”, he said.
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