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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/21/world/middleeast/obama-threatens-force-against-syria.html
Obama Threatens Force in Syria over Chemical Weapons
(New York Times) Mark Landler - President Obama warned Syria on Monday that it would face American military intervention if there were signs that its arsenal of unconventional weapons was being moved or prepared for use. The warning brings Mr. Obama a step closer to direct American engagement. The specter of unconventional weapons being loosed in the heart of the Arab world, he said, would upend his calculation that military intervention would only worsen the situation. "We cannot have a situation in which chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people," he said.