A warning Syria's President Assad must heed -- US Special Forces cross into Syria

The Times (UK) ^ | October 27, 2008 | James Hider: Analysis

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The US airborne raid into Syrian territory marks the culmination of years of frustration with Damascus’s reluctance to police its own border with Iraq, the main point of entry for foreign jihadists.

Since the 2003 invasion, Syria, fearing that it could be the next target for regime change, has allowed Islamic militants to cross its desert borders freely. Significantly, the village of al-Sukkari farm, which US forces raided, is just over the border from the Iraqi city of al-Qaim, which, since 2003, has been a key funnelling point for jihadists entering Iraq on the so-called rat run to the Sunni cities of Ramadi, Fallujah and, finally, Baghdad.

But a raid into sovereign territory would have needed high-level US clearance and may have been intended as a warning to Syria at a time when America and Israel are trying to turn the regime of President Assad away from Iran and into peace talks.

[17th Miss Regt]

There are stumps in the desert there...how unusual

Some are pretty big and may require a couple of hundred pounds to do the trick. We want to make sure that the future farmers can handle the stuff safely, by remote control!

[Travis McGee]

The Syrians are praying 5X a day for an Obama victory.

They know he’ll stop this “aggression” on day one.

[Longtom]

I've often wondered how Acmanutjob in Iran and the mullahs must feel. When they look east, theres the US military in Afganistan and when they look west, there we are in Iraq.Must suck being ''book-ended'' by the biggest dog on the block.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hot Air comments on whom it might be:

Report: U.S. choppers attack targets inside Syria?

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Update: Roggio to the rescue. He thinks it’s plausible and that al-Masri was the likely target.

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MSNBC Video at HotAIR calls this an ESCALATION.....!!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #24....MSNBC says this is an Excalation.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

MSNBC says this is an Escalation....

might have been an Excavation also.

[Travis McGee]

I think you’re right. To kill the bad guys, smart bombs would have been plenty.

SFs on the ground means snatch to me.

[Marine_Uncle]

I see this article discusses some of the things I just made points on in other posts on this issue.
The Syrians have no excuse. They did not honor their commitments with our Department of State. Their military is a bunch of bozos to begin with, and if they could not after some five years secure their borders with Iraq then this just proves they are either incompetent and or simply unwilling to cooperate in the least with stabilizing Iraq.
I wish Shell Oil and other companies where not doing business with them. They should be on a stiff economical sanction list.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Barf alert on this one:

IRAQ: Commando raid on Syria raises question of timing

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No, the Bush administration is using the attack on Syria as a ploy to raise questions about Obama's international relations capabilities.

[Marine_Uncle]

You could be right on the mark regarding the possibility that GWB is allowing the raid(s) to take place in order to ratchet up a bit the election results. But how many of the anointed one's admires keep a close watch on these type events. They want change, hope, charity, a chicken in every pot, a Cadillac in every garage, a free house.