Lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta was a member of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.
Syria hosted Zarqawi’s terrorist group al Tawhid’s training casmp at least as early as summer 2002; the group, a predessesor of al Qaeda in Iraq and ISIS, had the goal of toppling Jordan’s king and was involved in the 1999 Millennium plots, an element of which was to bomb the Radisson Hotel in Jordan where American including US military personnel often stayed.
The US military chaplain Yee received his Islamic training in Damascus before being selected by the AMF-VAC [an organization associated with convicted terrorists which was permitted by the Clinton Admin to select muslim chaplains for service in the US military and in ULS prisons.] Yee is known for smuggling classified documents and terrorist communications out of Gitmo to the Syrian regime.
Syria also played host to Iran’s fav terrorist Imad Mugniyeh and his son. Imad Mugniyeh is known for the 1980s bombings of the Marine barracks, the French soldier’s barracks , and the US embassy in Lebanon that took hundreds of lives and wounded many more. He’st also the men behind the abduction to Iran and torture and murder of American CIA station chief William Buckley and the abduction, torture and murder of US Marine Col. Higgins. And also the bombing of the Jewish center in Argentina more recently. Mugniyeh was finaly tracked down and killed in Damascus, Syria in 2008 in a joint Israeli-US attack just minutes after he met with his Iranian contact and Syrian General Mohammed Suleiman, a senior advisor to President Bashir al Assad and the man in charge of Syria’s nuclear reactor project. Suleiman was killed months later by a sniper by Israel as part of an effort to slow Syria’s nuclear efforts.
Interesting Wikipedia trivia involving Syria, a USN pilot shot down by the Syrians, and Obama’s pastor of 20 years:
While on a bombing mission, the two-man crew from Attack Squadron VA-85 was hit by an infrared homing missile (SA-7 or SA-9) into the engine nozzle upon dropping its bomb-load, while still in a dive through 1,800 feet (554 m) AGL. The fuselage and a wing were immediately engulfed in flames, and then the right side engine erupted.
The pilot, United States Navy Lieutenant Mark Lange, a Naval Aviator, tried to control the aircraft in order to safely eject the crew. After a rapid, low-level descent, the Intruder was seen to pull up and likely stalled, resulting in a crash on a 1,000 AGL [clarification needed] hill, above a village surrounded by Syrian Anti-aircraft artillery positions. Lange ejected both himself and Goodman in the final moment, but his parachute failed to properly deploy by the time he hit the ground. Lange’s left leg was severely injured and he died shortly after capture by Syrian troops and Lebanese civilians. Goodman, rendered unconscious, broke three ribs, injured a shoulder and a knee during the landing, but was otherwise stable. He was captured and awakened by the Syrians and taken to Damascus.
Captivity[edit]
Goodman was held for more than a month, during which the U.S. government made numerous attempts to free him. He had a few visitors, including Ambassador Robert Paganelli who brought him Christmas dinner.
Freedom[edit]
In January 1984, Jesse Jackson travelled to Libya and Syria within a party of approximately 20 volunteers including; Wyatt T Walker, Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan. The mission’s peaceful purpose was accomplished, as they secured the release of Goodman.[2][3]
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