(Breaking) Witnesses: US helicopters attack Syrian village

[satya]

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Witnesses: US helicopters attack Syrian village     
Oct 26 02:20 PM US/Eastern
By ALBERT AJI
Associated Press Writer
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria's state-run television and witnesses say U.S. military helicopters have attacked an area along the country's border with Iraq, causing casualties.

The report quoted unnamed Syrian officials and said the area is near the Syrian border town of Abu Kamal. It gave no other details on Sunday's attack.

Local residents told The Associated Press by telephone that two helicopters carrying U.S. soldiers raided the village of Hwijeh, 10 miles inside Syria's border, killing seven people and wounding five.

The U.S. military in Baghdad had no immediate comment.
Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[MikeWB]

October surprise! John McCain needs to win somehow..

[high_treason]

Syria would make a logical target for the jews

It is the weakest militarily out of all israel's enemies, So attacking them instead of Iran would make much more sense to those bastards, especially that Bashar El Asad Syria's president will not respond as he didn't respond before when israel bombed him with Lebanon in 2006, flew planes over his house in 2005, bombed him again in 2007 and assasinated many officials since 2004.

[Ognir]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7692153.stm

Yep now coming on msm

[Mac Seafraidh]

I remember it was Bush(on behalf of Israel) that proposed Syria the Golan Heights if they end ties with Iran. This is U$rael's belligerent response. It was on some MSM network, forgot which one. They are all the same so it does not matter.

[mastermg]

What, this is horrible. The blood thirsty Israel and its bitch (the US) are still agressing. Im not surprised though, the Muslim countries will keep getting pounded on until they change their corrupt un-Islamic governments.

[Mac Seafraidh]

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:01:38 GMT

Syria has warned the United States of retaliatory measures if Washington launches another incursion into the country's territories.

"We would defend our territories" if the US repeats such a "criminal and terrorist aggression" against Syria, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said on Monday, a day after US commandoes launched a cross-border attack on a small Syrian border town.

During the raid, the commandoes onboard four helicopters killed at least eight people, including four children in the village of al-Sukkiraya.

"We put the responsibility on the American government. Killing civilians in international law means a terrorist aggression," the Foreign Minister said in a press conference in London, after talks with his British counterpart David Miliband.

The US confirmed the attack on Monday, saying the invasion had been a 'successful' operation against 'foreign fighters' in Syria.

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[Mac Seafraidh]

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:18:00 GMT  

The Russian Foreign Ministry has condemned the US for having triggered dire consequences by the recent attack on the Syrian soil.

"It is obvious that such unilateral military actions have a sharply negative effect on the situation in the region, and widen the seat of dangerous armed tension," said the ministry in a statement about the purported Sunday attack by four US military helicopters that killed 8 people according to Syrian officials.

The ministry added that the reported incident near the Iraqi-Syrian border marked Washington's using the 'war on terror' as a codename for infringement upon sovereign soils.

"We believe attacks that are worthy of condemnation should not be launched on the territory of sovereign states under the slogan of the fight against terrorism."

A US military official in Washington said the raid by Special Forces had targeted the network of al-Qaeda-linked foreign fighters moving through Syria into Iraq.

"The operation was successful," AFP reported quoting another US official who had sought anonymity.

Damascus officials have also been aiming indignant remarks at Washington in succession after the reported incident with the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem having said "we consider this criminal and terrorist aggression."

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[Mac Seafraidh]

28/10/2008 Syria decided on Tuesday to close the US cultural centre and the American school in Damascus after a deadly US raid on a village near the Iraqi border, the state news agency SANA reported.
 
Damascus has said the eight people killed in Sunday's assault were all civilians, including children, and it has branded the raid - the first confirmed US action of its kind inside Syrian territory - a "terrorist" act.
 
The Syrian cabinet in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mohammed Naji Otri called for the education and culture ministers to take the necessary measures to close the two American institutions, SANA said.
 
In the aftermath of the helicopter-borne raid by US troops launched from Iraqi territory, the ministers also decided to postpone a November 12-13 meeting of the Syrian-Iraqi high commission.
 
The ministers condemned the raid, which a US official claimed targeted foreign fighters who infiltrate Iraq, as a "barbarous crime which amounts to the peak of state terrorism as practiced by the US administration."
 
It was a "violation of the UN Charter and international law," they charged in a statement.
 
Meanwhile, the number two in Syria's ruling Baath party, Mohammed Saeed Bkheitan, said the US raid amounted to "an act of piracy and state terrorism" against a farm inhabited by families and laborers.

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[Mac Seafraidh]

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:17:57 GMT  

The US refuses to comment on its Sunday violation of Syrian sovereignty, which may endanger its bid to sign a controversial pact with Iraq.

US commandoes stationed in Iraq crossed the border into Syria aboard four helicopters and attacked the border farm of al-Sukkariya at about 5:45 pm (1445 GMT) on Sunday, killing nine civilians and wounding 14 others.

In Washington, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino refused to provide any explanation as to the reason of the operation.

"I am not able to comment on reports about this reported incident and I am not going to do so. You can come up here and try to beat it out of me, but I will not be commenting on this in any shape of form today," she told reporters on Monday.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack evaded questions on the issue, providing only the normal US line on matters pertaining to the 'war on terror'.

"It's a tough fight, certainly a tough ideological struggle, a fight with violent extremists and like I said you have to confront the problem across a variety of different fronts," he said.

Syrian officials have condemned the cross-border raids as an 'outrageous crime' and 'clear aggression' and have demanded an explanation from Iraqi and US officials.

"We have not heard anything official from the American officials. We have not heard any official statement," Ahmed Salkini, the press secretary of the Syrian Embassy in Washington, told Press TV on Monday.

The only comment on the issue come from an unnamed US military official, who told AFP on Monday that the US operation aimed at confronting 'foreign fighters going into Iraq' was 'successful'.

"The operation was successful," he said. "When it comes to foreign fighters going into Iraq, threatening our forces."

Press TV has also contacted the Pentagon to inquire what evidence the Special Forces had to prove that the Syrian village, as claimed by the unofficial source, was a refueling zone for suspected terrorists.

"At this point we have no comment on the incident whatsoever," Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Wright responded.

Experts have expressed doubts that the US will eventually explain their justification for the hostile confrontation.

"We had something like this happen in Pakistan on September 3, and usually in events like this there is not a lot of commentary from the official US sources," Kenneth Katzman, a specialist in Middle East affairs for the Congressional Research Service, told Press TV.

The raid is expected to hamper Washington's push for the finalization of a security agreement with Baghdad to legalize its presence in oil-rich Iraq.

It has fueled speculation that the controversial US-proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) may allow the White House to turn Iraq into a launch pad for incursions into neighboring states.

Under the agreement, American military and civilian planes will be able to use Iraqi airspace without Baghdad's oversight.

Strongly opposed by Iraqi political and religious leaders, the deal will also allow the United States to attack any country, which "represents a security threat to Iraq."

Although the White House has been pushing hard for the finalization of the pact, there is the possibility of Baghdad refraining from signing the agreement because of nationwide opposition to the deal.

[Mac Seafraidh]

Hanan Awarekeh

30/10/2008 Damascus on Thursday witnessed a huge public demonstration in protest against the US act of terrorist aggression which targeted al-Sukkariah farm in Abu Kamal city on Sunday, claiming the lives of eight defenseless civilians, including a father and his four sons.
 
The protestors, who came from all public, students, women, civic societies, religious and trade union activities, expressed condemnation and rejection of the American heinous crime which targeted peaceful building workers in a farm in Abu Kamal.
 
They stressed that this act of aggression is a flagrant violation of the international laws and norms and a form of systematic terrorism exercised by the American administration on the Arab region.
 
The protestors called on the international community to put an end to this reckless US arrogance, appealing to the active, peace-loving forces and the international organizations to condemn this act of terrorism and take needed procedures to put to trial the aggressors who show disregard to the international laws, norms and charters.
 
The Syrian government has demanded that Washington apologize for the US crime.
 
The US embassy was closed Thursday because of security concerns related to the protest. The Syrian government has ordered the closure of a US school, expected within a week, and the immediate closing of the American cultural center linked to the embassy.
 
In announcing its closure Thursday, the U.S. Embassy also warned Americans to be vigilant - raising concerns about the safety of U.S. citizens in Syria.
 
In Washington, State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood said Wednesday that Syria had formally notified the U.S. of the closure order for the cultural center, effective immediately, and the school by November 6.
 
Wood said Washington was considering how to respond and stressed the U.S. expects the Syrian government to provide adequate security for the buildings housing the cultural center and the Damascus Community School.
 
As the protesters filled the Youssef al-Azmi square and surrounding streets in the upscale al-Maliki neighborhood, some Syrians formed circles and danced traditional dances while women and students joined the peaceful crowds.
 
America the sponsor of destruction and wars, read one of the banners carried by the protesters, who waved national flags and totted pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad.  We will not submit to terrorism, read another.

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