{"id":194073,"date":"2008-10-27T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/27\/us-stages-cross-border-raid-into-syria\/"},"modified":"2008-10-27T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T23:22:00","slug":"us-stages-cross-border-raid-into-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/27\/us-stages-cross-border-raid-into-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"US Stages Cross Border Raid into Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=73357&amp;sectionid=351020206\">the US launched a commando raid into Syria<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/28\/africa\/28syria.php\">U.S. officials have confirmed the matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that somewhere around 8 people were killed.  It appears that the target was, Abu Ghadiya who was described as, &#8220;Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia&#8217;s &#8220;most prominent&#8221; smuggler of foreign operatives,&#8221; by US sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7692263.stm\"><\/a>Needless to say, Syria and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/27\/mideast\/syria.php\">Iran have condemned the attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis here seems to be that the Bush administration is doing this for two reasons, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/10\/27\/america\/NA-US-Syria.php\">to coerce more action by the local governments against such people<\/a>, and to establish a precedent for the next president to follow.<\/p>\n<p>What I would worry about is someone like Cuba deciding that this precedent applying to the, and bullets flying in Miami as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have reports the US launched a commando raid into Syria, and U.S. officials have confirmed the matter. It appears that somewhere around 8 people were killed. It appears that the target was, Abu Ghadiya who was described as, &#8220;Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia&#8217;s &#8220;most prominent&#8221; smuggler of foreign operatives,&#8221; by US sources. Needless to say, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,964,1063,986,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194073"}],"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=194073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}