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CIA led mystery Syria raid that killed terrorist leader - Abu Ghadiya ran fighter pipeline ...
McClatchy Newspapers ^ | Monday, October 27, 2008 | Jonathan S. Landay and Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers

Posted on 10/28/2008 8:59:33 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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1 posted on 10/28/2008 8:59:33 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Make a movie! See if it does better than ‘W’!


2 posted on 10/28/2008 9:01:22 AM PDT by Sundog (Palin --- She who can shoot a moose can shoot a Russian bear.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

What a nice bit of news. If you are say dictator x some place in the middle east particularly near Iraq this is quite a shot across your bow.


3 posted on 10/28/2008 9:01:22 AM PDT by JLS (Do you really want change being two guys from the majority of Congress with a 9% approval rating?)
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To: Dog; edpc; NormsRevenge; elhombrelibre; Allegra; SandRat; tobyhill; G8 Diplomat; Cap Huff; ...
H/T to Dog for pointing this article out on another thread:

Syrian Villager Says 2 Men Grabbed In US Raid

4 posted on 10/28/2008 9:02:33 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Abu Ghadiya ran fighter pipeline ...

Not any more.

5 posted on 10/28/2008 9:04:27 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Abu Ghadiya ran fighter pipeline ...

Not any more.

6 posted on 10/28/2008 9:04:58 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: JLS; Sundog

Sends a nice message to the Terrorists and their Global jihad network and all of the countries that allow them Sanctuary...


7 posted on 10/28/2008 9:05:01 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Now if we could just do something like that to the pirates in their little rubber boats off the coast of Somalia, let a few boatloads float back with all the occupants dead-—there might be a glimmer of hope to the end of that pernicious problem.


8 posted on 10/28/2008 9:07:53 AM PDT by Sundog (Palin --- She who can shoot a moose can shoot a Russian bear.)
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To: All; Dog
First report I have seen that mentioned this...heard it earlier on Foxnews:

The Iraqi government defended the raid. Government spokesman Ali al Dabbagh said that Syria had refused to hand over foreign fighters who'd taken refuge there after killing 13 Iraqi border guards.

Not sure when that happened....

9 posted on 10/28/2008 9:09:13 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Did they nab the groom and best man? < /s >


10 posted on 10/28/2008 9:10:27 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Great news. Hats off to my brothers in arms for bagging this guy.


11 posted on 10/28/2008 9:10:51 AM PDT by Terrence DoGood
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Of course the CIA is going to decline comment. If true it’s nice to know they are on the job and doing bad things to bad people wherever they are.


12 posted on 10/28/2008 9:11:54 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (Hope in one hand and Change in the other. Which one gets dirtier first?)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666
Did they nab the groom and best man? < /s >

Yep- this wasn't an attack. It was just a wedding party.

However, there were some unexpected guests that changed the tune to "I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll so I had to to lock and load! "
13 posted on 10/28/2008 9:20:53 AM PDT by philled ("I prefer messy democracy to the stability of tyrants." -- Howar Ziad, Iraqi Ambassador to Canada)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“”The Americans do it in the daylight. This means it was not a mistake. It is by blunt determination,” Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al Moallem charged...”

blunt determination
BLUNT DETERMINATION

yep.
on the beaches ,in the streets...to quote Churchill.


14 posted on 10/28/2008 9:21:19 AM PDT by fishhound
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Hopefully this stopped a future 9-11... Imagine if we did this to Bin Ladin if we had the chance! God Bless our Troops! God Bless America!


15 posted on 10/28/2008 9:24:06 AM PDT by PureSolace (Trust in God)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Now I'm really confused. Reuters has a report with the same spokesman denouncing the raid.
"The Iraqi government rejects U.S. aircraft bombarding posts inside Syria. The constitution does not allow Iraq to be used as a staging ground to attack neighboring countries," spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081028/ts_nm/us_syria_usa_iraq_dabbagh
16 posted on 10/28/2008 9:26:32 AM PDT by gingeroni
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To: Non-Sequitur

==> “Abu Ghadiya ran fighter pipeline ... “ <==

...and now we could run him THROUGH a pipeline!


17 posted on 10/28/2008 9:37:56 AM PDT by MainFrame65 (The US Senate: World's greatest PREVARICATIVE body!.)
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To: fishhound
Related thread:

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

And from this thread:

US strike in Syria "decapitated" al Qaeda's facilitation network

*********************EXCERPT******************

From the report:

Bergner said several of the documents found with Muthanna included a list of 500 al Qaeda fighters from "a range of foreign countries that included Libya, Morocco, Syria, Algeria, Oman, Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, France and the United Kingdom."

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Truly a Global Jihad Operation....

18 posted on 10/28/2008 9:40:37 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: gingeroni

They remembered that Obama could replace President Bush...


19 posted on 10/28/2008 9:42:43 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The body of Badran Turki Hishan al Mazidih, an Iraqi national who used the nom de guerre Abu Ghadiya, was flown out of Syria on a U.S. helicopter at the end of the operation Sunday by CIA paramilitary officers and special forces, one U.S. official said.

There are thousands of pig farmers who would be happy to accept a food donation.

20 posted on 10/28/2008 9:44:32 AM PDT by aculeus
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