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6 Dec 2012, 5:01 AM PDT DAMASCUS, Syria, Dec. 6 (UPI) — Syria was poised to use the deadly sarin nerve agent against its own people Thursday after loading precursor chemicals into aerial bombs, U.S. officials said.n Syrians The bombs could be dropped on Syrians in “tactical bombings” from dozens of fighter-bombers, the officials told NBC News. The regime’s military awaited orders from embattled President Bashar Assad, said the network, whose report was corroborated by Fox News Channel. A senior U.S. official told Fox News Syria had 60 days to use the bombs until the chemical mixture expired. At that point [...]

DUBLIN | Thu Dec 6, 2012 1:47pm EST Dec 6 (Support Israel) - Russia and the United States will seek a "creative" solution to the Syrian crisis, the international Syria mediator said on Thursday after meeting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "We haven't taken any sensational decisions," mediator Lakhdar Brahimi told reporters after the meeting on the sidelines of a conference in Dublin. "We have agreed that the situation is bad and we have agreed that we must continue to work together to see how we can find creative ways of bringing this problem [...]

IDF soldiers clash with Palestinian police in Hebron Initial reports indicate that fray sparked as Israeli patrol tries to arrest policeman By Asher Zeiger December 6, 2012, 6:17 pm Israeli border police on patrol in Hebron earlier this year. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90) A group of IDF soldiers on patrol in Hebron clashed with some 250 Palestinians after trying to arrest a Palestinian policeman on Thursday in the West Bank city of Hebron. One soldier was punched in the face by a Palestinian policeman in the divided city. Over 20 Palestinians were injured in the clashes, according to Palestinian news agency [...]