Syria

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Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) talks with Dennis J. Kucinich (left) and Greg Palkot of the Fox News Channel in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., right, members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, walk to a closed-door briefing on Syria with Secretary of State John Kerry, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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In this photo released on early Thursday Sept. 19, 2013, by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with Fox News channel, in Damascus, Syria. Assad says a United Nations report finding "clear and convincing evidence" that sarin nerve gas was used in Syria painted an "unrealistic" account, and he denied his government orchestrated the attack. (AP Photo/SANA)

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In this Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013, photo, Syrian students gather in the playground of Hassan Shuaib School in Damascus, Syria. Facing extraordinary challenges, millions of Syrian children in government-controlled areas returned to school this week to the backdrop of a raging civil war and an international debate over Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile. (AP Photo)

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Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates is second-guessing the president's decision to seek Congress' approval before firing on Syria. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Sept. 1, 2012, file photo, Syrian prisoners sign their papers of release at the Damascus Police Command headquarters in Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File)

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In this Aug. 28, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by the United Media Office of Arbeen, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, members of the U.N. investigation team take samples from sand near a part of a missile that is likely to be one of the chemical rockets according to activists, in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. (AP Photo/United Media Office of Arbeen)