{"id":193978,"date":"2008-11-03T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/03\/the-syrian-clusterf\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T23:15:00","slug":"the-syrian-clusterf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/03\/the-syrian-clusterf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Syrian ClusterF&#038;%$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it now looks like there was Syrian foreknowledge and support of the raid, only they were told that it would be a snatch and grab, and it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/middle_east\/article5062848.ece\">turned into a John Wayne shootout<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In the time-honoured tradition of covert US operations in the Middle East, this one seems to have gone spectacularly wrong. The Syrians, who had agreed to turn a blind eye to a supposedly quiet \u201csnatch and grab\u201d raid, could not keep the lid on a firefight in which so many people had died. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it appears that they Syrians were expecting a quiet op, and they got a bunch of citizens killed in the process.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that this will make them much more likely to support such an operation in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it now looks like there was Syrian foreknowledge and support of the raid, only they were told that it would be a snatch and grab, and it turned into a John Wayne shootout: In the time-honoured tradition of covert US operations in the Middle East, this one seems to have gone spectacularly wrong. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[986,1006,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-military","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}