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American
                           Raid on Syria
                           
                           
(Iraq
                           War)
                           
                           
October
                           2008
                           
                           
 
                           
                           
On
                              October 25, 2008, American special
                              forces conducted a military raid
                              against al-Qaida forces in the Syrian
                              border area at the Sukkariyeh Farm near
                              the town of Abu Kamal. See below for
                              details...
                              
                              
 
                              
                              
American
                              military forces launched a raid on
                              al-Qaida forces located in Syria on
                              Oct. 25, 2008. This attack was intended
                              to hamper the movement of al-Qaida's
                              foreign fighters into Iraq from bases
                              in Syria. This attack was similar in a
                              policy sense, to an American Special
                              Forces attack
                              on an al-Qaida base in
                              Pakistan
                              in September, 2008. The Syrian
                              government claimed that eight people
                              died at the Sukkariyeh Farm near the
                              town of Abu Kamal, five miles inside
                              the Syrian border from Iraq. Witnesses
                              said that four helicopters were used in
                              the American raid. The area is near the
                              Iraqi border city of Qaim, which is a
                              major crossing point for al-Qaida
                              allied foreign fighters, weapons and
                              money infiltrating into Iraq to aid the
                              Sunni insurgency against the Iraqi
                              government and American forces.
                              
                              
                              
The
                              apparant target of the raid was a man
                              named Abu Ghadiya, who was a senior
                              al-Qaeda leader had run a network of
                              infiltrating and supplying militants
                              across the Iraqi border since
                              2005.
                              
                              
 
                              
                              
Links:
                              
                              
Hitting
                              Syria, Five Years Late :Soliciting
                              Assad was one of Bush's biggest war
                              mistakes--Wall
                              Street Journal, Oct. 27,
                              2008
                              
                              
Pakistan
                              parallels in 'Syria
                              raid'
                              -- BBC, Oct. 27
                              
                              
U.S.
                              Special Operations Raid Into
                              Syria--Americanspecialops.com
                              
                              
IRAQ:
                              Commando raid on Syria raises question
                              of timing--LA
                              Times, Oct. 26, 2008
                              
                              
US
                              special forces launch rare attack
                              inside Syria--Associated
                              Press, Oct. 26, 2008
                           
                           
 
                        
                     
                  
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