Posted on 10/28/2008 8:59:33 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON — A CIA-led raid on a compound in eastern Syria killed an al Qaida in Iraq commander who oversaw the smuggling into Iraq of foreign fighters whose attacks claimed thousands of Iraqi and American lives, three U.S. officials said Monday.
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.
"It was a successful operation," a second U.S. official told McClatchy. "The bottom line: This was a significant blow to the foreign fighter pipeline between Syria and Iraq."
A senior U.S. military officer said the raid was launched after human and technical intelligence confirmed that al Mazidih was present at the compound close to Syria's border with Iraq. "The situation finally presented itself," he said.
The three U.S. officials, who all spoke on the condition of anonymity because the operation was classified, declined to reveal other details of the raid. A CIA spokesman declined to comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...
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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.
Not any more.
Not any more.
Sends a nice message to the Terrorists and their Global jihad network and all of the countries that allow them Sanctuary...
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.
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....
Did they nab the groom and best man? < /s >
Great news. Hats off to my brothers in arms for bagging this guy.
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.
“”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.
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!
==> “Abu Ghadiya ran fighter pipeline ... “ <==
...and now we could run him THROUGH a pipeline!
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
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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....
They remembered that Obama could replace President Bush...
There are thousands of pig farmers who would be happy to accept a food donation.
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