[SunkenCiv]

In before the Assad worshippers.

• Syria orders restoration of historic mosque in Aleppo after fire started by fighting -- FoxNews, AP

  Government troops had been holed up inside the place of worship in downtown Aleppo for several months before rebels fighting to topple Assad launched a push to liberate it this week.

[CondorFlight]

One good reason not to get involved?

There are about 100,000 Russian personnel in Syria,
plus their naval base on the coast.

They are propping up the Assad regime.

We do not want a direct confrontation with them.

But if someone does, watch for a “staged incident” in which Turkey, a NATO member, is “forced” to respond
(and calls for UN and NATO assistance).

That may be what Ambassador Stevens was meeting with the Turkish ambassador to Libya (in Benghazi?) about.