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Special Forces Launch Raid Inside Syria
Power Line — ... The tactical details aren't clear, but the U.S. military has confirmed that special forces and helicopters have attacked targets across the Iraq border inside Syria. The raid was part of an effort to stop the flow of foreign terrorists across the Syrian border and into Iraq. The Syrian border, according to U.S. military sources, is the last one that is still porous and allows access to Iraq by foreign terrorists. The flow of foreign terrorists and money into Iraq has slowed to a fraction of what it was a year ago; sealing the border with Syria would reduce it even further. ...

U.S. Helicopters Attack Syria?
Stop The ACLU — More: 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 official said the raid by special forces targeted the foreign fighter network that travels through Syria into Iraq. The Americans have been unable to shut the network down in the area because Syria was out of the military’s reach. “We are taking matters into our own hands,” the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of ...

Uh-oh
Booman Tribune — ... Sun Oct 26th, 2008 at 08:28:35 PM EST Nine days before an election, and the U.S. attacks Syria ? It couldn't wait? Doesn't matter. It won't work. Display: ...

U.S. Air Strike into Syria
Blue Star Chronicles — ... There are scattered reports that the U.S. has crossed the border into Syria launching an attack near the Iraqi border city of Qaim. The apparent purpose of this attack is to close up a border crossing that jihadis have used to cross over into Iraq to fight our Soldiers there. Its been reported that most other countries surrounding Iraq have cooperated to the point that they have managed to police the border areas in order to prevent al-Qaeda and other islamic radicals from crossing over into Iraq. Unfortunately, that hasn’t been the case with Syria. ...

U.S. Special Forces Went into Syria on Sunday
PoliGazette — Late Sunday night we reported that reports said that the United States had attacked a target within Syria that day. We were, as of yet, unsure about the goal of the operation, nor were we sure that the U.S. was willing to go public by defending the attack. One day later, however, it has become clear that the attack was carried out on purpose. The goal, as publicly admitted by top U.S. officials, was to secure the Iraqi-Syrian border in order to stop the inflow of foreign terrorists into Iraq. One year ago, 100 foreign terrorists entered Iraq each month. Once in Iraq they joined forces with extremist organizations such ...