S media outlets including CNN, ABC and The New York Times have reported Fiday that the potential US strike on Syria could be larger than previously anticipated.
The possible US led air campaign could be two-days long and include long-range B-2 and B-52 stealth bombers which would takeoff from the US and fire guided missiles from beyond the range of Syria anti-air defense systems, Jonathan Karl of ABC News, who is traveling with President Barack Obama to Russia, reported.
If indeed the heavy bombers will be involved in the attack, one of their potential targets will be rockets used for chemical attacks as well as those capable of reaching Israel, ABC reported, in addition to some 200 tomahawk missiles which will be fired from US destroyers in the Mediterranean.
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n a possible reaction to news of the widening attack plan, The Wall Street Journal reported the US has intercepted an Iranian order aimed at Iraqi militants which instructed them to attack US facilities, including its embassy in Baghdad in the event of a Syrian strike, the paper quoted an official as saying.
According to military officials, other possible retaliation threats could be from Iran's fleet of fast boats in the Persian Gulf – which threaten gulf-based US battle ships – as well as an attack on the US Embassy in Beirut by Hezbollah.
