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(Iraq
War) October
2008 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 "The
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