Washington Free Beacon
September 6, 2013
ABC’s Jonathan Karl reported President Obama’s plan for a Syrian
strike could be “significantly larger” than most anticipated Thursday on
“World News Tonight.”
Karl quoted an unnamed national security official who claimed the
attack could do more damage to Assad in 48 hours than the Syrian rebels
have done in two years:
JONATHAN KARL: […] ABC News has learned the president’s national
security team is preparing for a significantly larger military attack
than most had anticipated. The air campaign which is expected to last at
least two days will potentially include an aerial bombardment of
missiles and long range bombs fired from B-2 and B-52 bombers flying
from the United States. That in addition to a relentless assault of
Tomahawk missiles fired from those four Navy destroyers in the eastern
Mediterranean. Those ships are loaded with nearly 200 missiles, plans
call for firing the vast majority of them. As one senior national
security official told ABC News, this military strike could do more
damage to Assad’s forces in 48 hours than the Syrian rebels have done in
nearly two years of civil war. That’s more than President Obama seemed
to be suggesting just days ago.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: What we are envisioning is something limited [...] We send a shot across the bow saying stop doing this.
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