only he would be ill advised to attack a NATO member. and seal his own fate.

he has attacked turkey.

Turkey fires artillery into Syria after shelling

Reuters) - Turkish forces fired across the frontier into Syria on Sunday after a shell launched from Syria landed in Turkey's border town of Akcakale, underlining Ankara's warning that it will respond with force to any violence spilling over into its territory.

It was the fifth consecutive day of Turkish retaliation against incoming bombardment from northern Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad's forces have been battling rebels who control swathes of land close to the Turkish frontier.

The exchanges are the most serious cross-border violence in Syria's revolt against Assad, which began in March last year with protests for reform but has evolved into a civil war with sectarian overtones which threatens to draw in regional powers.

The Syrian shell landed near a plant belonging to the Turkish Grain Board, the Dogan news agency reported, several hundred meters from the center of Akcakale where five civilians were killed on Wednesday in previous Syrian artillery fire.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/08/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE88J0X720121008

so far the turks are handling the murderer on their own. i believe the nato warning is to put him on notice that he is doing this his mortal peril.

supplied by NATO members to the al Qaeda terrorist operating in Syria?

Perhaps that's wrong but it does leave room for doubt.

link?

again, link? source?

btw the syrian government admitted they did it and apologized (no doubt realizing the existential mistake they made.)

wrong as the US did with the terrorist attack in Benghazi.

it would certainly be wise of them. given the nato charter which makes an attack on turkey an attack on all members. more likely scenario is they did it, realized they f'd up and started grovelling as they contemplated their mortality. Occam's razor and all. Your theory requires many more factors (speculative ones at that).

Hmmm... What's 'the rest'?

Press TV? CCTV?

The Syrian regime called it a tragic accident.

i guess the thought of syrian skies filled with french mirages tends to focus the mind.

Mr Atalay, Turkey's deputy prime minister says Syria has admitted it was responsible for the shelling that killed five civilians in Turkey and has formally apologized for the deaths.

He said that Syria has reassured the UN that "such an incident will not occur again".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9585945/Turkey-shells-Syria-live.html

Syrian officials could still come out and deny that they admitted to or apologized for anything, but so far they have not.

He can't handle these rebels, and these action will provoke further Turkish/Arab involvement, and it may attract more attention from us.

In the meantime, there is a good interview in Der Spiegal with the Iranian Foreign Minister Salehi. Y'all should read it.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/iranian-foreign-minister-salehi-on-syria-and-nuclear-weapons-a-860015.html

der speigal does real journalism. I take it the Iranians are rational (enough) actors to know what the consequences for their ally assad better than he does should they f with turkey to the point of a nato response.