Things hotting up

After the warning from the warlord yesterday:
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should heed U.S. warnings    to neither use nor move chemical or biological weapons, lest he risk crossing a "red line" and provoke a U.S. military response, President Barack Obama said Monday.
"We cannot have a situation where chemical or biological weapons are falling into the hands of the wrong people," Obama told reporters at the White House. "We have been very clear to the Assad regime -- but also to other players on the ground -- that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.

"That would change my calculus; that would change my equation."
Obama added that U.S. officials are monitoring the situation "very carefully" and have put together a number of contingency plans.....

Russia says this:
Russia has warned against unilateral action    in Syria after the US said it might intervene militarily if Damascus used chemical weapons on the rebels.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said there should be no outside interference and countries should "strictly adhere to the norms of international law"..........