[BurbankKarl]

That is why the Riverjoint aircraft was in the area when this all went down.

[rhombus]

You mean perhaps Rivet Joint.

http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/rivet_joint.htm

[jhpigott]

that’s the thinking

Assad is in a very precarious position, at least internationally. The UN Hariri assasination tribunal is coming up, which is probably going to finger a number of persons in the Assad regime and now we got Israel/US spilling the goods on Assad’s nuclear ambitions