Unnamed US officials: Syria raid 'killed major target' - BBC

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 08:12 GMT, Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Syria raid 'killed major target'

A US helicopter raid into Syria killed a key figure
involved in the smuggling of foreign fighters into Iraq,
unnamed US officials have said.

Officials called the raid, which they said killed Iraqi
Abu Ghadiyah, a "success". The White House has
neither confirmed nor denied the incident.

Syria has condemned Sunday's attack as an act of
"terrorist aggression".

It says eight unarmed civilians were killed near Abu
Kamal, about eight kilometres (five miles) inside Syria.

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[ColbertWatcher]

1. Are they trying to say they finally killed bin Laden?

Was it a caged hunt? Where they let him out of the cage they;'ve been holding him in for all these years and let him go in order to get shot?

Or, was there only one casualty? Will bin Laden's capture be coming closer to the election?

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. They killed the # 2 Al-Kida guy. Again.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Most. Dangerous. Job. Ever. n/t

[DemoTex]

6. Kind of like a 2nd lieutenant + radioman with a whip antenna.

Sitting ducks.


Michael Bedard

[Indi Guy]

2. Beware The Silent Elephant...

...Really!!!

[RC]

4. Was one of the civilian construction workers the key figure?

Even when they are blowing up wedding parties they seem to know they got the key figure in the party.

We have so many war criminals in involved in our illegal wars, the war crimes trials for our war criminals are going to take decades.