news.yahoo.com - 10/27/2008
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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 cash into Iraq . The raid Sunday targeted the ...
longwarjournal.org - 10/26/2008
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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 ...
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Syrian strike aimed at al Qaeda's coordinator in Syria
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 ...
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Little Regard For International Boundaries
Newshoggers.com —
... Iraq. The U.S. military, in an officially unofficial leak to the AP, are claiming hot pursuit of Al Qaeda fighters out of Iraq and have said little else about it other than that the U.S. is "taking matters into its own hands". Syrian eyewitnesses are claiming that US forces shot and killed seven men and a woman, while the Syrian government are taking it a step further and alleging children died too. So far, though, the only funerals that have been held were for the seven dead men, which locals and the Syrian authorities say were simply construction workers ...
McCain's Irresponsible Syria Response
democracyarsenal.org —
... So how does the McCain campaign respond to sporadic news reports that U.S. special forces carried out an attack in Syrian territory? Well a responsible campaign (i.e. the Obama campaign) would follow the White House's lead and offer no comment until they got more information. But instead the McCain campaign opts for blatant politicization. Here is McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb: ...
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longwarjournal.org 10/27/2008 — Al Qaeda leader Abu Ghadiya was killed in yesterday's strike inside Syria, a senior US military intelligence official told The Long War Journal . But US special operations forces also inflicted a major blow to al Qaeda's foreign fighter network based ...
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.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Would McCain Negotiate With Syria?
newshoggers.com 11/2/2008 — By Cernig
Check out this very interesting interview with the Syrian ambassador Imad Moustapha at Foreign Policy magazine.
He says clearly that the US raid into Syria was a "criminal, terrorist act", that it was done for reasons of US politics, ...
McCain's Irresponsible Syria Response
democracyarsenal.org 10/29/2008 — So how does the McCain campaign respond to sporadic news reports that U.S. special forces carried out an attack in Syrian territory? Well a responsible campaign (i.e. the Obama campaign) would follow the White House's lead and offer no comment ...
US special forces launch rare attack inside Syria - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 10/27/2008 — DAMASCUS, Syria U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq , killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as "serious aggression." A U.S. military ...
An Iraqi Accord and a New U.S. President —
Wash Post Federal Page 10/27/2008
The status-of-forces agreement that would govern conduct of the U.S. military and its contractors in Iraq beyond 2008 would apparently tie the hands of the next U.S. president in some respects if it was ratified by the Iraqis before Jan. 20.
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