nytimes.com - 10/28/2008
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The operation appeared to reflect an effort by the Bush administration to find a way to attack militants even beyond the borders of Iraq and Afghanistan. >
tnr.com - 10/28/2008
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tnr.com —
On Sunday, U.S. helicopters accompanied by a special
forces team struck in Sukkariyeh, Syria, just over the...
border from Iraq. It was a raid with enormous implications for the war in Iraq and the broader war on terror. The target of the raid was a man ...
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Twilight Struggle
online.wsj.com - 10/27/2008
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SUKKARIYEH, Syria -- A U.S. counterterrorism official says
U.S. special operations forces killed the head of a...
Syrian network that funneled foreign fighters, weapons and cash into Iraq. The raid Sunday in the village of Sukkariyeh targeted the home of ...
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Syrian Militant Leader Was Killed in U.S. Raid, Official ...
mcclatchydc.com - 10/28/2008
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WASHINGTON — A CIA-led raid on a compound
in eastern Syria killed an al Qaida in Iraq...
commander who oversaw the smuggling into Iraq of foreign fighters whose attacks claimed thousands of Iraqi and American lives, three U.S. officials said Monday.
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CIA led mystery Syria raid that killed terrorist leader
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The discrepancy could be immediately ignored
Mudville Gazette —
... Too bad, because asking for an explanation of the discrepency would have made for some outstanding television, says I.
Lets review that AP report again: "An Associated Press journalist at the funerals in the village's cemetery saw the bodies of seven men -- none of them children. The discrepancy could not immediately be explained." Note that's an Associated Press journalist - not a U.S. government/DoD spokesperson - countering the Syrian claim.
Meanwhile, in today's news: A raid into Syria on Sunday was carried out by ...
Syria, Iraq, And The Misnamed War On Terror
Wonk Room —
... blackhawk2.JPG Partly as a result of the U.S. raid into Syria last weekend, the Iraqi government has decided to reopen negotiations on ...
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Strategic Vacuum
TomDispatch —
... the Global War on Terror only expands. Perhaps the word should be "metastasizes." Just this week, the U.S. military, using SOFA-less Iraq as its launching pad, sent four helicopters with U.S. special forces soldiers across the Syrian border in an operation in which a number of people were killed. (The Syrians claim the assault was on a farm and that "a father and his three children, the farm's guard and his wife, and a fisherman" all died; the U.S. claims that its forces took out a key al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia operative.) After a several day delay, American officials ...
Expanding War, Contracting Meaning
Antiwar.com Original —
... down, the Global War on Terror only expands. Perhaps the word should be "metastasizes." Just this week, the US military, using SOFA-less Iraq as its launching pad, sent four helicopters with US special forces soldiers across the Syrian border in an operation in which a number of people were killed. (The Syrians claim the assault was on a farm and that "a father and his three children, the farm's guard and his wife, and a fisherman" all died; the US claims that its forces took out a key al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia operative.) After a several day delay, American officials ...
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juancole.com 10/27/2008 — More on the US raid on a house in Syria: The LAT wonders if the attack will derail US-Syrian steps toward rapprochement . Syrian officials are complaining that the raid, which left 8 Syrians dead, was 'irrational' and contravened international ...
More on U.S. Syria Raid
motherjones.com 10/28/2008 — Back in May, I reported that the US government was using stepped up channels to ask Syria to turn over a top alleged Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia figure, Abu Ghadiya, whose real name is Badran Turki Hishan Al Mazidih, to Iraq. A group assembled at the US ...
8 reportedly killed in U.S. raid inside Syria - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 10/26/2008 — Reporting from Beirut and Washington -- U.S. forces ferried by helicopter Sunday crossed five miles into Syria from Iraq and launched a commando raid that left at least eight people dead, Syrian news outlets and sources reported. Syria has long been a ...
8 reportedly killed in U.S. raid inside Syria - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com 10/27/2008 — Reporting from Beirut and Washington -- U.S. forces ferried by helicopter Sunday crossed five miles into Syria from Iraq and launched a commando raid that left at least eight people dead, Syrian news outlets and sources reported. Syria has long been a ...
US official: Raid on Syria killed leader of cell - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 10/27/2008 — SUKKARIYEH, Syria Families in this Syrian village on Monday buried relatives they said died in a U.S. helicopter attack. A U.S. counterterrorism official said American forces killed the head of a Syrian network that funneled fighters, weapons and ...
Breaking: US Attacks Syria in Cross-Border Raid
littlegreenfootballs.com 10/26/2008 — The US military is fed up with Syria’s open support of Iraqi jihadis, and today they sent helicopters into Syrian territory in a strike targeting a family that has been helping the jihadis get across the border: Syria: US choppers attack village near Iraq border .
DAMASCUS, Syria ...
Breaking: US Attacks Syria in Cross-Border Raid
littlegreenfootballs.com 10/26/2008 — World | Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:38:22 pm PST The US military is fed up with Syria s open support of Iraqi jihadis, and today they sent helicopters into Syrian territory in a strike targeting a family that has been helping the jihadis get across the ...
Syria: US conducted cross-border raid
longwarjournal.org 10/26/2008 — Syrian officials claim the US military conducted a cross-border raid into Syria from Iraqi territory.
The raid was reportedly carried out in the town of Sukkariya near Abu Kamal in eastern Syria. According to witnesses, four US helicopters crossed ...
U.S. Calls Raid a Warning to Syria
washingtonpost.com 10/30/2008 — Copter-Borne Troops Targeted Key Iraqi Insurgent, Officials Say By Ann Scott Tyson and Ellen Knickmeyer Washington Post staff writers Tuesday, October 28, 2008; A01 U.S. troops in helicopters flew four miles into Syrian territory over the weekend to ...
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Wash Post Federal Page 10/29/2008
Hurry, hurry, hurry. There still may be seats available on a spectacular U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service trip that will send 28, that's twenty-eight, senior officials to Mexico for a week of post-election R and R. It includes a tour of the fabulous ...
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