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Reese Erlich and Peter Coyote on al-Sukariya
vanityfair.com - 10/23/2009
Reese Erlich and Peter Coyote on al-Sukariya
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On October 26, 2008, U.S. helicopters stormed a farm near the Iraq-Syria border in search of leading al-Qaeda ooperative Abu Ghadiya. One year later, the authors report from Syria that the raid may have been botched, and the lives of seven innocent civilians taken instead, by mistake.

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The Murders at al-Sukariya
Commondreams.org Views — ... lessons for the Obama administration. Was the incident a necessary blow against a shadowy terrorist enemy? Or was it an ill-conceived military adventure that risked alienating a potential ally and enraging the public? As we now see with the United States' cross-border drone attacks in Pakistan, threading that needle may prove to be one of the most vexing problems facing the Obama administration. And the thread begins for us in Syria. To continue reading the rest of the article, go here .

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