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Pat Dollard | Young Americans: US Spec Ops Hunter-Killer Teams Entered Syria To Try To Capture Senior Al Qaeda Leader Abu Ghadiya
Victory Caucus -- All Content: Bill Roggio: Syrian strike aimed at al Qaeda's coordinator in Syria
A Blog For All: US Carried Out Snatch and Grab Raid Into Syria?
Israel Matzav: Video: US helicopter strike in Syrian territory
Hot Air » Top Picks: U.S. source on Syria raid: We got our man
US Spec Ops Hunter-Killer Teams Entered Syria To Try To Capture Senior Al Qaeda Leader Abu Ghadiya
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
Earlier Post Here.
Syrian strike aimed at al Qaeda’s coordinator in Syria
By Bill Roggio - (The Long War Journal)
The US military incursion into Syria was aimed at the senior leader of al Qaeda’s extensive network that funnels foreign fighters, weapons, and cash from Syria into Iraq, a senior intelligence official told The Long War Journal.
US special operations hunter-killer teams entered Syria in an attempt to capture Abu Ghadiya, a senior al Qaeda leader who has been in charge of the Syrian ...
Bill Roggio: Syrian strike aimed at al Qaeda's coordinator in Syria
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... Sunday, 26 October 2008 The attack was aimed at Abu Ghadiya, an Iraqi who manages al Qaeda's network that funnels foreign fighters, weapons, and cash from Syria into Iraq. read ...
US Carried Out Snatch and Grab Raid Into Syria?
A Blog For All —
... included al-Masri, the leader of AQI, and Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, both of whom are heavily involved in the Iraq insurgency and efforts to undermine the new Iraqi government. Bill Roggio believes that the raid was aimed to capture al Qaeda's top coordinator inside Iraq. US special operations hunter-killer teams entered Syria in an attempt to capture Abu Ghadiya, a senior al Qaeda leader who has been in charge of the Syrian network since 2005. US intelligence analysts identified Ghadiya as the leader of the Syrian network, The Washington Post reported in July. Ghadiya was ...
Video: US helicopter strike in Syrian territory
Israel Matzav —
... and watch the videos - he makes a good case. At Long War Journal, Bill Roggio reports on Monday morning that the target was al-Qaeda's coordinator in Syria, Abu Ghadiya . The US military ...
U.S. source on Syria raid: We got our man
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... , both of whom were presumably smaller fish. A U.S. strike on a network of foreign fighters in Syria killed its main target — an Al Qaeda coordinator who was wanted for sending foreign fighters, weapons and cash into Iraq, a U.S. official told FOX News. Killed in Sunday’s attack by Special Operations Forces was Abu Ghadiyain, Al Qaeda’s senior coordinator operating in Syria who was closely associated with the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Roggio actually ID’d the target before Fox did. How big was this guy? Not a great white, perhaps, but easily a barracuda: US special ...
Syria Strike Update.....
Theo Spark —
Syrian strike aimed at al Qaeda's coordinator in Syria. by Bill Roggio. H/T DJ Elliott
Roggio: Syrian Strike Aimed at Al Qaeda Coordinator
Little Green Footballs —
... Bill Roggio has the story behind yesterday’s US attack on Syria: Syrian strike aimed at al Qaeda’s coordinator in Syria. ...
The doctor’s unpleasant medicine
Yourish.com —
... murdered.
The insurgency in Mosul is the last big thorn left in Iraq’s paw. That we struck targets in Syria does not surprise me and I am not appalled. I am appalled that Syria allows these groups to use its territory as a base and conduit to destabilize Iraq. A Syrian government that allows these groups to penetrate Iraq’s borders and murder Iraqis and Americans doesn’t have much moral standing to complain about an incursion into its territory.
Bill Roggio explains how the U.S. learned about the terror network in Syria:
The US ...
