Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. and Yemen are now looking at fresh targets in Yemen for a potential retaliation strike, two senior U.S. officials told CNN Tuesday, in the aftermath of the botched Christmas Day attack on an airliner that al Qaeda in Yemen claims it organized.
Public employment will not be cut substantially as trade union leaders have already announced a general strike in retaliation, if ever the unthinkable were to happen.
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Whether or not there is retaliation for this specific Israeli strike, it is clear that the potential for an engagement between Israel and Hezbollah is now high.
Fahd Jassem al-Freij responded to questions on why Syria wasn't retaliating against Israel by saying the strike was itself a retaliation after Israel's rebel proxies in Syria were repulsed by the Syrian army.
Any strike on Iran could provoke fierce retaliation directly from Iran and through its Middle East proxies in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, raising the specter of a larger Middle East conflict.
During the Cold War, when the United States faced the threat of a nuclear attack, U.S. administrations made clear that any strike would prompt an all-out retaliation.
Syria said the strike targeted a military research facility and vowed retaliation, but has so far refrained from any response.
Either strike first or pray that the fear of retaliation would deter the Iranians from beating them to the punch.
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So my question to you is are you prepared to deal with the retaliation, the fallout that would come after a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities?
The convention bans such systems under the belief that a country would not launch a nuclear strike if it were unable to protect itself against retaliation.
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