Barack Obama is considering following the devastating poison gas attack in a military strike against Syria Dictator Assad. The British Prime Minister David Cameron urges the US President to act: The intervention must take place quickly. Talking is a unique attack of NATO ships on positions of the regime.

the Facts

On 21 August comes in settlements near Damascus, the Syrian region Ghuta apparently for the use of poison gas. The rebels blame ruler Bashar al-Assad. The regime has blamed of itself.

The UN Security Council calls for a rapid investigation of allegations of poison gas.

The U.S. is preparing for a military intervention in Syria. A decision is still pending.

Great Britain drives the progress in preparing for a Western intervention in Syria. Even on this Monday to military chief of staff Nick Noughton will meet in Jordan with his U.S. counterparts Gen. Martin Dempsey, reports the “Times.”

According to the newspaper, a single regime of Syrian shelling positions of NATO ships from is favored by the military at the time.

Prime Minister David Cameron, U.S. President Barack Obama sat for the poison gas attack near Damascus under pressure, no time to lose in a military operation. An intervention must take place within a few days.

Considered to Downing Street to bring the Parliament from summer recess to vote on military action against Assad. There had been a corresponding receivable from the two major parties in the House. The government must be given the opportunity “to act very quickly if needed,” said a spokesman for Cameron.

The prime minister had telephoned the weekend with Obama because of a reaction to the chemical weapons attack. Even the White House believes it is as good as proved that the poison gas attack was carried out by the Syrian regime.

After long hesitation, but now Obama is considering a military strike. Support for an intervention of the West Cameron received by Paddy Ashdown, the former party leader of the Liberal Democrats. He called for “sharp, rapid and specific” action against the Assad regime, although he actually inserts without UN mandate “hate”. Ashdown had campaigned for a military intervention in the Balkans in the nineties and was UN Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Cameron’s Foreign Secretary William Hague said that a military intervention a UN mandate would not essential. It is “possible” to act without a unanimous decision of the Security Council, he told the BBC.

Currently, the UK has the following military activities in the region:

Air Force: In Cyprus, there is the Akrotiri air base a base as its own territory. There are several warplanes stationed. More can be laid quickly there. From Akrotiri to Syrian cities such as Damascus or Homs is only about 200 to 300 kilometers in a straight line.

Navy: According to media reports, already a nuclear-powered submarine of the Royal Navy in the region should be. Also currently running the Mediterranean maneuver “Cougar 13” by the British Response Force Task Group. Take part in the exercise as part of the flagship amphibious landing ship “HMS Bulwark”, the helicopter carrier “HMS Illustrious” and the frigate “HMS Westminster” and “HMS Montrose”.

Turkey also signaled support for intervention

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that he expected soon to reach an agreement about possible actions against Syria. A reaction of the West “will be decided in the coming days,” Fabius said on Monday the station Europe 1 On the question of possible forms of response the minister said, had been decided yet. “The options are open.”

Fabius make the government in Damascus may be responsible for the recent attacks with poison gas. “It is clear that this massacre back on Assad’s regime,” Fabius said. The reaction will be done with the “determination and serenity”. “The only way that does not make sense is to do nothing.”

Turkey, too, would join an international coalition against Syria, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced in the newspaper “Milliyet”. “Currently, 36 or 37 states discuss these alternatives. Event in this process, a coalition formed against Syria, Turkey would take their place in this coalition,” Davutoglu said accordingly.

Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle demanded “consequences” if allegations are confirmed, poison gas against the regime. “The use of chemical weapons of mass destruction would be a crime of civilization,” the FDP politician said on Monday at a conference of the German Ambassador in the Foreign Office. “If such an application should confirm that the world community must act. Then Germany will be among those who hold implications for properly.”

Westerwelle also urged for calm to prevent a conflagration in the Middle East. “It is both necessary: determination, but also considered prudence.” The persistent deadlock in the Security Council was “deeply frustrating”. Nevertheless true of Syria continues to be the “target of a political approach”, ie a diplomatic solution.

UN experts on the way to the poison gas areas

Chemical weapons expert of the UN departed on Monday from Damascus to take the allegedly bombed with poison gas areas inspected. This was reported by an eyewitness, who was waiting outside the hotel where the team is located.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had before the investigation of chemical weapons experts pointed to the urgency of the inspection. “Every hour counts, we can not afford any more delays,” he said on Monday during a visit to the South Korean capital Seoul. In addition, he again demanded “full access” for the UN experts. “The world looks at Syria,” Ban said.

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