Syria: No-fly zone option under consideration, White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan .

Syria: No-fly zone option under consideration, White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan.(Ansa).The White House is not ruling out the creation of a no-fly zone over Syria, a senior official says. "I don't recall the president ever saying that anything is off the table", President Barack Obama's counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan said yesterday, responding to a question on whether a no-fly zone area was being considered. "The United States government always looks at situations and looks at what types of scenarios might unfold, and then accordingly looks at what types of emergency plans might be available to deal with certain circumstances", said Brennan. He also stressed that the United States have done "a number of things to support the opposition". "There is a lot of humanitarian assistance that is going on there", he continued. Brennan said Washington wanted make sure "that we understand exactly who are going to be the recipients of any type of aid". Although Al Qaida is going to try and take advantage of the situation, if you look at the whole Syrian opposition "the overwhelming majority of them are no Al Qaida ilk", Brennan said, describing them as Syrians who are "truly trying to gain control of their lives and their future". Speaking at a seminar at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, the senior official said that "the United States government always looks at situations and looks at what types of scenarios might unfold and then accordingly looks at what types of contingency plans might be available to deal with certain circumstances". "Rest assured that various options that are being talked about in the press and sometimes being advocated, these are things that the United States government has been looking at very carefully, trying to understand the implications, trying to understand the advantages and disadvantages", he concluded.Hmmmm.....A pitty they're not that 'tough' on Iran's nuclear arms program.Read the full story here.