military action goes ahead, observers fear the assad regime and its supporters, such as lebanese, shia islam group, hezbollah, may retaliate against u.s. ally, israel. hezbollah has already sent fighters to syria to support the assad forces. supporters of the group were defiant during friday prayers at a mosque in southern beirut. people are being urged to join the battle against the united states. some had hung a slogan among the main street saying our determination to fight. >> translator: the u.s. is the principle culprit of terrorism. they are the ones that always start the attack. >> translator: military action doesn't achieve anything. we will keep protesting. >> reporter: iran is strengthening its rhetoric against president obama and his threat of force. in israel, the military is boosting its missile defense system. in addition to the unrest from the syrian civil war, the prospect of an american attack is shaking the region further. sho beppu, nhk world, beirut. >>> syria's opposition has not been struggling alone. the government of the gulf state of qatar has been supporting their fight.

shia islam. also kurds and arabs and christians and drews, in libya, u.s. recognized one rebel group syria this is right now as president seeks authority to strike syria it is unclear how many rebel groups there are in syria. listen to this. some expert say that there are dozens. others say that those rebel groups number almost a thousand, imagine, ou our experts don't he a firm, firm understanding of the number of people involved in the operation. what is clear, is that some of them are linked to al qaeda. there is the matter of international support for an attack on syria. i keep saying that. it is an attack on syria, this is note a strike, not a fly over. the gadhafi regime had absolutely no friends, none, u.s. acted in libya to be very specific president insisted on attacking libya with support from nato and backing from the airarab league. russia and china did not block the no fly zone over libya, russia is now moving trooping to mediterranean, sending assad more weapons and blocking u.s. action on syria. the syrian regime sorr refor its backing of iran, hezbollah and even china