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Witnesses: US helicopters attack Syrian village
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Posted on 10/26/2008 11:30:00 AM PDT by kcvl

Edited on 10/26/2008 11:31:59 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: kcvl

Maybe we’re going to move in. Syrians are rebuilding their nuclear facility, aren’t they?


21 posted on 10/26/2008 11:34:13 AM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: kcvl

Good.


22 posted on 10/26/2008 11:35:17 AM PDT by hershey
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To: Jeff Chandler

Love that line! Ryslexia Dules.


23 posted on 10/26/2008 11:35:26 AM PDT by Defiant (NY Times carried the world's commies on its back but then...... Ad-Less Shrugged)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Something like this is above 0bamas gay parade.

Funniest thing I've heard all day!
24 posted on 10/26/2008 11:35:39 AM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts
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To: kcvl

Now, if they can just fire a missile into that stash of WMD’s that are warehoused in Syria...then, you would have quite an October Surprise!


25 posted on 10/26/2008 11:36:47 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: hershey

If true very good. Better late than never.


26 posted on 10/26/2008 11:36:55 AM PDT by fantom
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To: MikeFrancesa.com

I agree with you, could very easily change campaign focus....if they were indeed US. Maybe should do it again just to make sure....


27 posted on 10/26/2008 11:36:55 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: kcvl

Hope this is a big enough development to put Obama’s speech tomorrow on the back burner and also for Bush to lead or follow Obama’s paid air time on Tues. night with an announcement of his own.

Wouldn’t that be sweet?


28 posted on 10/26/2008 11:37:17 AM PDT by randita
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To: kcvl

If this is true and you factor in Biden’s and Powell’s comments about an upcoming crisis, there is an obvious major threat we are facing.


29 posted on 10/26/2008 11:37:44 AM PDT by Treefiddy
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To: kcvl

Either Al-Qaeda big wig or Al Duri.


30 posted on 10/26/2008 11:37:57 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: kcvl

Seems odd, in that with geopositioning, the American military would know where it is at all times.


31 posted on 10/26/2008 11:38:12 AM PDT by popdonnelly (An Obama Administration isn't Camelot, it's Doctor Zhivago)
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To: kcvl

why even risk troops? Just rain down hellfires like in Pakistan. Unless there was some excellent HUMINT that is....


32 posted on 10/26/2008 11:38:19 AM PDT by steel_resolve (We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset)
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To: steel_resolve

Drudge has the sirens in full force on this headline, I was waiting for a sirens story for a long time, can’t remember the last big one. As somebody aptly said, pray for our troops, if Syria responds this could get ugly.


33 posted on 10/26/2008 11:40:09 AM PDT by MikeFrancesa.com (www.war69.com)
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To: Treefiddy

The MSM will say “Biden fortells the future”....


34 posted on 10/26/2008 11:40:39 AM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: kcvl

Thank you President Bush!!

He is a credit to our country folks, God Bless President Bush!!!


35 posted on 10/26/2008 11:40:43 AM PDT by siamesecats
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To: kcvl

Jerusalem Post 5 minutes ago.

“US strike helicopters have attacked targets in Syria, near the Iraq border, Channel 10 reported on Sunday night.

Western defense officials told the television channel that US troops were carrying out a military operation against global Jihad activists in Syria.

Syria’s official news agency SANA, said that the Bou Kamal border area, in eastern Syria was attacked, but did not identify the helicopters.

According to the Channel 10 report, four US military helicopters attacked a home in a small town by the Iraqi-Syrian border.

Reuters quoted residents as saying that a house was targeted, and that seven men - a man and his four sons, and two bystanders - were killed.

US soldiers apparently disembarked from one of the helicopters, carried out a search in the town, and left the area.”


36 posted on 10/26/2008 11:41:13 AM PDT by jokyfo ("OBAMA" is Arabic for "CIPHER" and Farsi for "VACUUM")
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To: kcvl

MORE—

IsraelNN.com)

Two to four United States helicopters attacked Syria, near the Iraqi border, Sunday evening, killing at least seven people. The site was near the target Israel bombed last year.

Foreign media reported that residents in the village of Al-Sukkariya, east of Damascus and about five miles from the border, saw seven dead bodies and four wounded men being rushed to a clinic. Syrian government news agencies confirmed the attack. A private Syrian television channel reported that nine men died and 14 were injured

Two of the helicopters reportedly landed in the village, where eight American soldiers jumped out and carried out the operation. The soldiers quickly returned to the helicopters, and all of the craft left the scene.

It was the first time the U.S. has attacked on Syrian land.

American military spokesperson Sergeant Brooke Murphy said official are investigating the report.

The targets reportedly were construction workers and were civilians. Israel reportedly attacked the area last September, and most reports indicated that the target was a nuclear site under construction.


37 posted on 10/26/2008 11:42:48 AM PDT by jokyfo ("OBAMA" is Arabic for "CIPHER" and Farsi for "VACUUM")
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To: kcvl

On the opposite side of the country, Syria is building troops on the Lebanese border. Looks like something is cooking.


38 posted on 10/26/2008 11:43:38 AM PDT by edpc
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Local residents in a Syrian border town said that American forces killed seven men in a helicopter-borne commando attack inside Syrian territory. State-run TV later raised the number of dead to nine.

Doctors in the town of Al-Sukkariya, some eight kilometres from the Iraqi border, said seven corpses and four wounded had been delivered to a nearby clinic after the attack.

The eyewitness accounts said that four helicopters were involved in the operation, with two of the helicopters landing in the town and eight American soldiers disembarking. The eyewitnesses said that the seven killed men were supposedly construction workers.

Afterwards, the US helicopters then left Syrian airspace with all the soldiers again on board.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1031568.html


39 posted on 10/26/2008 11:43:51 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

This must be very big indeed when the Israelis bombed Sryia’s Nuke program they said nothing about it.

I’m willing to bet it was more than a couple of helos nor a random target. Someone or even something big got snatched.


40 posted on 10/26/2008 11:43:52 AM PDT by usmcobra (There are 665,000,000 reasons why Obama should show his eligibility to be president!)
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