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Harrison wrote:*shrug* Syria is a shitbag breeding ground for drugs, weapons, funds, and other supplies for terrorists and the insurgents overall.

WASHINGTON: A raid into Syria on Sunday was carried out by American Special Operations forces who killed an Iraqi militant responsible for running weapons, money and foreign fighters across the border into Iraq, American officials said Monday.

The helicopter-borne attack into Syria was by far the boldest by American commandos in the five years since the United States invaded Iraq and began to condemn Syria's role in stoking the Iraqi insurgency.

The timing was startling, not least because American officials praised Syria in recent months for its efforts to halt traffic across the border.

But in justifying the attack, American officials said the Bush administration was determined to operate under an expansive definition of self-defense that provided a rationale for strikes on militant targets in sovereign nations without those countries' consent.

Together with a similar American commando raid into Pakistan more than seven weeks ago, the operation on Sunday appeared to reflect an intensifying effort by the Bush administration to find a way during its waning months to attack militants even beyond the borders of Iraq and Afghanistan, where the United States is at war.

Administration officials declined to say whether the emerging application of self-defense could lead to strikes against camps inside Iran that have been used to train Shiite "special groups" that have fought with the American military and Iraqi security forces.

American officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of the raid said the mission had been mounted rapidly over the weekend on orders from the Central Intelligence Agency when the location of the man suspected of leading an insurgent cell, an Iraqi known as Abu Ghadiya, was confirmed. About two dozen American commandos in specially equipped Black Hawk helicopters swooped into the village of Sukkariyah, near the Iraqi border, just before 5 p.m., and fought a brief gun battle with several militants, including Abu Ghadiya, the officials said.

It was unclear whether Abu Ghadiya died near his tent on the battlefield or after he was taken into American custody, one senior American official said.

One United States official described Abu Ghadiya as Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia's "most prominent" smuggler of foreign operatives crossing the Syrian border into Iraq, and in February the Treasury Department named him as one of four major figures in that group living in Syria.

Camp Bush wrote:expansive definition of self-defense

Ganzo wrote:I think you are missing a point that Syria is an independent country that is not at war with US. Syria had not attacked US or it's civilians anywhere in the world. We went inside their territory on supposed terrorist hunt and killed bunch of civilians in their homes in the middle of the night.

Harrison wrote:If we know there's a training camp/supplier just over the border, do we just not do anything about it because of a fucking line in the sand?

Harrison wrote:If we know there's a training camp/supplier just over the border, do we just not do anything about it because of a fucking line in the sand?

Kramer wrote:do people have any clue why the majority of the world hates the USofA? do people not get that we could find justification to invade any country and that the american public becomes more and more docile and bovine-esque in its swallowing whole of actions like this one?

Harrison wrote:If we know there's a training camp/supplier just over the border, do we just not do anything about it because of a fucking line in the sand?

But in justifying the attack, American officials said the Bush administration was determined to operate under an expansive definition of self-defense that provided a rationale for strikes on militant targets in sovereign nations without those countries' consent.

Ganzo wrote:

Harrison wrote:If we know there's a training camp/supplier just over the border, do we just not do anything about it because of a fucking line in the sand?

We know there's bunch of high ranking terrorists hiding in Britain under no extradition clause, should we send commandos to London?

Drem wrote:

Harrison wrote:If we know there's a training camp/supplier just over the border, do we just not do anything about it because of a fucking line in the sand?

please don't turn into a gung ho dumb motherfucker just because you decided to join the army. you're better than that

Evermore wrote:George Bush is the brother of the Anti-Christ