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    Military may help Turkey operate Patriot missiles

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I'm Harris Faulkner in tonight for Shepard Smith we are learning US forces could soon be headed to the Syrian border.

Their mission part of NATO's plan to put patriot missiles up the line between Turkey and Syria.

This patriots are designed to intercept any potential missiles coming from Syria and defense officials say any country.

But since its equipment is likely to send their own troops operate it.

We're told no one has signed deployment orders officially just yet but it's almost certain at this hour US troops will be on the move there's absolutely no indication.

Our fighting men and women would cross into Syrian territory.

But the Pentagon has told the Obama administration it would require more than 75000.

Soldiers to secure Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles.

It's impossible to say exactly how much that would cost.

But the price tag for that sort of operation could easily run into the billions of dollars now again there's no indication at all.

That such an operation will happen any time soon.

All this coming just days after President Obama -- in the Syrian regime of consequences.

It turns -- chemical weapons on its own citizens and today secretary of state Hillary Clinton saying the world has made that perfectly clear.

To president -- Charles sought.

We have sent a an unmistakable message that.

This would cross a red line and those responsible would be held to account.

Activists saying at least 40000 people have died in the anti government uprising that began last year and now evidence the bloodshed is again seeking across.

Another border into Lebanon.

Gunmen loyal to the Syrian regime and rebels fought it out on the streets in the northern part of that country.

Dozens reported dead in two days of fighting there similar clashes have erupted more than a dozen times before in Lebanon.

More violence and death that we can Trace back to the actions of one man.

And today a new warning from the head of the United Nations that president -- probably should not expect any mercy from his counterparts around the world.

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