Key U.S. lawmakers: Expect strike in Syria
Two key members of congressional foreign affairs panels say they expect the United States to strike Syria following reports of chemical weapons attacks in that country last week, though other lawmakers interviewed Sunday cautioned that unilateral action would be misguided.
"I think we will respond in a surgical way and I hope the president, as soon as we get back to Washington, will ask for authorization from Congress to do something in a very surgical and proportional way. Something that gets their attention, that causes them to understand that we are not going to put up with that kind of activity," Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on "Fox News Sunday."
Syria to allow inspectors to site of suspected chemical weapons attack
By Frederik Pleitgen, Hamdi Alkhshali and Josh Levs, CNN
Syria will allow U.N. inspectors full access to any site of a purported chemical weapons attack, a top Syrian official told CNN on Sunday.
The agreement is effective immediately, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al Mekdad said.
And inspectors hope to begin their probe Monday at the suspected chemical attack site, the U.N. secretary-general's office said.
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