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U.S. Special Forces Raid Into Syria
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:35 pm
by DangerousDave
Of course, probably SOAR and SFOD-D folks. According to BreitBart, they raided a village 7 klicks inside Syria. About time.

Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:08 pm
by Treesuit
DD,
Was it a raid or airstrike? The media is reporting an airstike.
Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 11:48 pm
by DangerousDave
I don't know yet, Tree. Might take a week or 2. You know how it was when the Israeli's took out the Syrian so-called Nuke site last year. Nobody knew about the hit, till the satt. pics showed up 2 months later.

We'll see.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:45 am
by housil
German
t-online news said:
http://nachrichten.t-online.de/c/16/64/ ... 42606.html
...according to the private Syrian TV-Station "Al-Dunia" (

) that at 17:45 four US helicopters hovered over at Al-Sukkarija 8km far from Iraq/Syrian border, two were landing. 8 soldiers should left the helicopters and started shooting, killing 9, injuring 14.
The Los Angeles Times also reported about that:
8 reportedly killed in U.S. raid inside Syria
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... 1766.story
What ever happend there, I would be carefull with news sources that started with "Al-...."

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:50 am
by Stef
housil wrote: What ever happend there, I would be carefull with news sources that started with "Al-...."

you mean "Allgemeine Frankfurter" or "Alabama Gazette"
In the Arab press, I guess in a few days they will be talking about 100 killed, principaly school kids and women

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:10 am
by housil
Stef wrote:housil wrote: What ever happend there, I would be carefull with news sources that started with "Al-...."

you mean "Allgemeine Frankfurter" or "Alabama Gazette"
In the Arab press, I guess in a few days they will be talking about 100 killed, principaly school kids and women

heh-heh....
Al-lgemeine Frankfurter
so funny....
Has someone seen :
CNN Presents - War in Iraq - The Road to Baghdad
An Iraq "crowd" is gathered around a fountain, reporting people hold as hostages down in the water.
As "evidence", they shouted down and got some "answer" back...
...their own echo
Reliable news source

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 12:20 pm
by aquarius
We don't know the details of this actions, and I doubt if we will ever get to know the truth. Both sides are not well known to tell the truth.
But be sure, according to international law this is an act of war from one souvereign nation (US) against another souvereign nation (Syria). This can have grave consequences.
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:13 pm
by DangerousDave
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 2:32 pm
by Stef
Well, in the past we've seen French troops running after Algerian terrorists through the Tunisian border, US running after Viet Cong into Cambodia and...Israelis doing the same thing in Lebanon, that's the only case it really turned bad!
As long as nobody tries to bomb the Talibans hidden in a Pakistani village... (for sure this country is full of terrorists, islamic maniacs, etc. but when they got a nuclear bomb, nobody calls them "terrorist" but only "mister"

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:01 pm
by aquarius
Well dangerousdave is right! Indeed terrosrist can do these things, but we as so called civilised states, can not. That's what separates them from us.
Non-lineair warfare for which we still have no other answer than bombing and shooting.
Of course I don't mind if some punck in Syria got his brains bombed out and his child also, however there are a couple of hundred of millions arabs and muslims who do care.