On Tuesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said there was "no doubt" that the Syrian government used chemical weapons in an attack on rebel forces on Wednesday of last week, and stated that President Obama was meeting with his security team to determine the appropriate response.

President Obama had conversations with Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd and Canada’s Prime Minister Harper and discussed his grave concern and potential reponses on Tuesday.

A detailed intelligence report on the alleged chemical attack is due out as early as today. The White House stated that information in that report will be released to the public.

Vice President Biden was in contact with the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by phone on Tuesday as well. During their conversation, the two men “pledged to continue to consult closely on the potential response” according to the White House.

British Prime Minister David Cameron cut short his vacation and called lawmakers from theirs to consider Britain’s response to the developments in Syria. British aircraft have been sent to a British maintained air base in Cyprus in anticipation of airstrikes in Syria.

Secretary of State John Kerry called the alleged attack a “moral obscenity” and pointed out that “We know that the Syrian regime maintains custody of these chemical weapons. We know that the Syrian regime has the capacity to do this with rockets. We know that the regime has been determined to clear the opposition from those very places where the attacks took place.” He also stated that the Syrian government is systematically destroying the evidence with its continued shelling of the area where the chemical attacks are said to have taken place.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, while traveling to Southeast Asia, today spoke with both the British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond as well as French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian about the alleged attacks in Syria. In those conversations, Hagel told his British and French counterparts that the U.S. is committed to working with the international community as they decide on and carry out the U.S. response.

The Syrian government continues to deny the use of chemical weapons in their country, and instead blame the rebels for the chemical attack that took the lives of hundreds.

The Russian government, a long-time ally of Syria’s Assad, echoed Syria’s denial and said that the U.S. is attempting to side-step the U.N. Security Council, which Russia sits on, and is attempting to “create artificial groundless excuses for military intervention” in Syria. Iran is also denying that the Syrian government is responsible for the attacks and is standing by its ally, Syria.

Meanwhile the Arab League held an emergency meeting in Cairo where they also blamed the Syrian government for the chemical attacks and said that it is holding Assad’s government responsible for this “heinous crime.”

U.N. inspectors came under sniper fire as they attempted to access the site of the alleged attacks on Monday. They were eventually able to go to one site and were scheduled to travel to another site on Tuesday but because of security concerns, cancelled that foray. Another attempt to access the site in Ghouta is scheduled for Wednesday.

Spokesperson for the State Department Marie Harf suggested that it is time for the inspectors to leave the area saying too much time has passed to effecctively assess the evidence of the attack.

An attack may be carried out as soon as Thursday. The attack is almost certtain to come from destroyers and submarines already in place in the eastern Mediterranean.