Boo Hoo! AP and mainstream Blame it on “Al Qaeda” again! How convenient!

So US troops have finally landed on sovereign Syrian territory and carried out a raid killing 8 or 9 people among which 4 are “Al Qaeda” kiddy-terrorists and one is their father!  The poor mother is unfortunately for her, still alive with the burden of having lost her entire family and her four “Al Qaeda” children.

US troops killed 2 innocent Egyptians on Egyptian territory a few months ago.  They kill Pakistanis on Pakistani territory every day now… that is not to mention the amount of Arabs and Muslims of supposedly US “allied” countries that are killed by Israelis everyday with US supplied weapons and money. 

The US is like an I’D’F Israeli army dog… executing Israeli orders while Israel cashes and bashes and leads the world to the war it is craving for.  Israel craves and the US does its dirty work and even pays the Israelis for it.  It seems now that the US as a country,  is itself  being sacrificed by the NWO just as the countries of the Near East are.

The US will soon be striking its own citizens with the excuse that they are “collaborators” with “Al Qaeda” or that they themselves are “Al Qaeda”.  What a convenient excuse to attack anyone and shut them up. 

W. Bush should have made it clearer when he said: “if you are not with us, you are against us”.  He should have simply said:  “if you are not with us, you are “Al Qaeda”.  Even the presidential Democratic candidate has lately been accused of being a “terrorist”.  Next, he and the Democratic party will be accused of being “Al Qaeda” because the Zionists lobby prefers senile poodle McCain who would gladly attack the whole near East in a second, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and so on…

AP  and all mainstream media of course out-does itself with its coverage of the US attack on Syria. 

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as "serious aggression."

A U.S. military official said the raid by special forces targeted the network of al-Qaida-linked foreign fighters moving through Syria into Iraq. The Americans have been unable to shut the network down in the area because Syria was out of the military's reach.
 
No mention of the 4 kids that the US forces killed.  If they were Israelis, we wouldn’t have heard the end of it of course… since they are “the chosen children”…
 
"We are taking matters into our own hands," the official told The Associated Press in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the political sensitivity of cross-border raids.
 
The attack came just days after the commander of U.S. forces in western Iraq said American troops were redoubling efforts to secure the Syrian border, which he called an "uncontrolled" gateway for fighters entering Iraq.
 
So I imagine that anyone living around the border cities or villages of Syria or any other Arab country for that matter, should move away to please the US and Israel and to avoid being accused of “terrorism”??!!
 
A Syrian government statement said the helicopters attacked the Sukkariyeh Farm near the town of Abu Kamal, five miles inside the Syrian border. Four helicopters attacked a civilian building under construction shortly before sundown and fired on workers inside, the statement said.
 
The government said civilians were among the dead, including four children.

A resident of the nearby village of Hwijeh said some of the helicopters landed and troops exited the aircraft and fired on a building. He said the aircraft flew along the Euphrates River into the area of farms and several brick factories. The witness spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information, Syria's Foreign Ministry said it summoned the charges d'affaires of the United States and Iraq to protest against the strike.
 
"Syria condemns this aggression and holds the American forces responsible for this aggression and all its repercussions. Syria also calls on the Iraqi government to shoulder its responsibilities and launch and immediate investigation into this serious violation and prevent the use of Iraqi territory for aggression against Syria," the government statement said.
 
The area targeted is near the Iraqi border city of Qaim, which had been a major crossing point for fighters, weapons and money coming into Iraq to fuel the Sunni insurgency.
 
Iraqi travelers making their way home across the border reported hearing many explosions, said Farhan al-Mahalawi, mayor of Qaim.
 
On Thursday, U.S. Maj. Gen. John Kelly said Iraq's western borders with Saudi Arabia and Jordan were fairly tight as a result of good policing by security forces in those countries but that Syria was a "different story."
 
"The Syrian side is, I guess, uncontrolled by their side," Kelly said. "We still have a certain level of foreign fighter movement."
 
He added that the U.S. was helping construct a sand berm and ditches along the border.
 
For who is the US doing this?
 
"There hasn't been much, in the way of a physical barrier, along that border for years," Kelly said.
 
The foreign fighters network sends militants from North Africa and elsewhere in the Middle East to Syria, where elements of the Syrian military are in league with al-Qaida and loyalists of Saddam Hussein's Baath party, the U.S. military official said.
 
Only idiots don’t know that the Baath Party be it in Iraq or Syria are totally secular parties!!
 
He said that while American forces have had considerable success, with Iraqi help, in shutting down the "rat lines" in Iraq, and with foreign government help in North Africa, the Syrian node has been out of reach.
 
Syria is the country that has taken the biggest amount (millions literally) of refugees from Iraq in gestures of good will towards the US.  The only country threatened by Syria is Israel.  The US will lose Syria because of Israel.  The US lost Iran, then Afghanistan, Iraq, then Lebanon, then Palestine of course, then Sudan.  Now it is on the way of losing Pakistan and Egypt… and Syria.
 
"The one piece of the puzzle we have not been showing success on is the nexus in Syria," the official said.
 
The White House in August approved similar special forces raids from Afghanistan across the border of Pakistan to target al-Qaida and Taliban operatives. At least one has been carried out.
 
The flow of foreign fighters into Iraq has been cut to an estimated 20 a month, a senior U.S. military intelligence official told the Associated Press in July. That's a 50 percent decline from six months ago, and just a fifth of the estimated 100 foreign fighters who were infiltrating Iraq a year ago, according to the official.
 
Ninety percent of the foreign fighters enter through Syria, according to U.S. intelligence.
 
[Or Israeli intelligence??]
 
Foreigners are some of the most deadly fighters in Iraq, trained in bomb-making and with small-arms expertise and more likely to be willing suicide bombers than Iraqis.

Foreign fighters toting cash have been al-Qaida in Iraq's chief source of income. They contributed more than 70 percent of operating budgets in one sector in Iraq, according to documents captured in September 2007 on the Syrian border. Most of the fighters were conveyed through professional smuggling networks, according to the report.

Iraqi insurgents seized Qaim in April 2005, forcing U.S. Marines to recapture the town the following month in heavy fighting. The area became secure only after Sunni tribes in Anbar turned against al-Qaida in late 2006 and joined forces with the Americans.
 
It’s incredible how mainstream media omits the interesting news.  The above paragraph should be as follows:  “The area became secure only after Sunni tribes in Anbar turned against al-Qaida in late 2006 and joined forces with the Americans” until W though he’d make a show of what he imagined was his new alliance and visited the leader of the Anbar Sheikhs… sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, shaking even his hand.  Ten days later the sheikh was assassinated by the Iraqis and W understood that he had no allies in Anbar in spite of the photo op that was stuffed down our throat. 
 
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem accused the United States earlier this year of not giving his country the equipment needed to prevent foreign fighters from crossing into Iraq. He said Washington feared Syria could use such equipment against Israel.
Though Syria has long been viewed by the U.S. as a destabilizing country in the Middle East, in recent months, Damascus has been trying to change its image and end years of global seclusion.
 
Its president, Bashar Assad, has pursued indirect peace talks with Israel, mediated by Turkey, and says he wants direct talks next year. Syria also has agreed to establish diplomatic ties with Lebanon, a country it used to dominate both politically and militarily, and has worked harder at stemming the flow of militants into Iraq.
 
No mention that it is the Lebanese who asked for Syrian military help in order to oust the Israelis…  The Syrians didn’t enter Lebanon uninvited…
 
The U.S. military in Baghdad did not immediately respond to a request for comment after Sunday's raid.
 
Associated Press reporter Pamela Hess in Washington and Sam F. Ghattas in Beirut contributed to this report.

Syria accuses US of deadly raid

Syria has accused the United States of killing at least eight people in a helicopter 
 
Syria has accused the United States of killing at least eight people in a helicopter raid in the country's east, close to the border with Iraq.
 
The government condemned the act as "serious aggression" and summoned the senior US and Iraqi envoys to Damascus to protest against the raid, the Syrian Arab news agency (Sana) reported on Sunday.
 
A US military official speaking on condition of anonymity told The Associated Press in Washington that the raid by US special forces were targeting al-Qaeda-linked foreign fighters moving through Syria into Iraq.

"We are taking matters into our own hands," AP quoted him as saying.
 
Syrian state television said American helicopters raided the village of Sukariya, which lies 550km northeast of Damascus, before flying back towards Iraqi territory.
 
"Four American helicopters violated Syrian airspace around 4:45pm local time [13:45 GMT] on Sunday," state television and Sana news agency reported.

During the raids, two of the helicopters landed and dropped off eight US soldiers, who then entered a house, Syrian media reported.
"American soldiers ... attacked a civilian building under construction and fired at workmen inside, causing eight deaths," the reports said.
 
Children killed
 
The government said civilians were among the dead, including four children.

"Syria condemns this aggression and holds the American forces responsible for this aggression and all its repercussions"
Syrian government statement

"Syria condemns this aggression and holds the American forces responsible for this aggression and all its repercussions. Syria also calls on the Iraqi government to shoulder its responsibilities and launch and immediate investigation into this serious violation and prevent the use of Iraqi territory for aggression against Syria," a government statement said.
 
Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, there have been some instances in which American troops crossed areas of the 600-km border in pursuit of fighters, or aircraft violating Syria's airspace.
But Sunday's raid, if confirmed, would be the first conducted by aircraft and on such a large scale.
 
Akram Hameed, one of the injured who said he was fishing in the Euphrates river, told Syrian television he saw four helicopters coming from the border area under a heavy blanket of fire.
 
"One of the helicopters landed in an agricultural area and eight members disembarked," the man in his 40s said. "The firing lasted about 15 minutes and when I tried to leave the area on my motorcycle, I was hit by a bullet in the right arm about 20 metres away," he said.
 
Syria TV showed what it said was the injured wife of the building's guard, in bed in hospital with a tube in her nose, saying that two helicopters landed and two remained in the air during the attack.
 
US reaction
 
The alleged attack came just days after the commander of US forces in western Iraq said American troops were redoubling efforts to secure the Syrian border, which he called an "uncontrolled" gateway for fighters entering Iraq.
 
US Major-General John Kelly said on Thursday that Iraq's western borders with Saudi Arabia and Jordan were fairly tight as a result of good policing by security forces in those countries but that Syria was a "different story".
 
"The Syrian side is, I guess, uncontrolled by their side," Kelly said. "We still have a certain level of foreign fighter movement."
 
However, Lieutenant-Colonel Chris Hughes, a spokesman for US forces in western Iraq, said the US division that operates on the Iraqi side of the border was not involved in Sunday's incident.
 
A Pentagon spokesman in Washington said he had no immediate information on the reported strike but would check further while the White House and CIA declined to comment.
 
The US and the US-backed Iraqi government frequently say Damascus is not doing enough to stop anti-US fighters, including those from al-Qaeda, from crossing the border into Iraq.
 
The area targeted by Sunday's raid lies close to the Iraqi border city of Qaim, which in the past has been a crossing point for fighters, weapons and money used to fuel the armed Sunni opposition against Iraq's Shia-led government.

Thabet Salem, a political analyst, told Al Jazeera that the US had appeared to have taken the building workers for infiltrators.
 
"The Syrian government will be very worried because from the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003 until now, nothing has happened [in Syria]. There have maybe been a few cases, but nothing like eight people killed inside Syria," he said.

"It will raise questions as to why this is happening at this moment - towards the end of the current US administration.
 
"Syria has deployed large numbers [of security staff] and they have checkpoints every four kilometres along the border. The Syrians have, according to my information, stopped five or six thousand people trying to cross the Syria-Iraq border throughout the last few years."
 
Iraq security
 
The raid comes 10 days after Iraqi forces arrested seven Syrian "terrorist" suspects at a checkpoint near the city of Baquba, a base for al-Qaeda fighters, the Iraqi government said.
 
But last month, Jalal Talabani, Iraq's president, told his US counterpart George Bush that Iran and Syria no longer pose a problem to Iraqi security.

Syria's first ambassador to Iraq in 26 years took up his post in Baghdad this month, bringing more than two decades of discord between the nations to an end.
 
In September, Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, said she had met Walid Muallem, Syria’s foreign minister, to discuss Middle East peace efforts.

Syrian and American diplomats said the talks touched on Iraq, Lebanon and Middle East peace negotiations.
  

US commandoes have reportedly attacked a Syrian border town near Iraq, killing at least nine people and wounding 14 others.
 
According to the local residents, four US helicopters were involved in the attack on the town of Al-Sukkariya, eight kilometers from the Iraqi border, DPA reported on Sunday.
 
Eyewitnesses said two helicopters landed in the border town from which eight American commandoes disembarked. The US troops then attacked people, killing nine and wounding 14 others.

"Nine people were killed and 14 wounded in the raid, which hit a group of builders while they were working," the private television channel al-Dunia said. "All victims were civilians."

 
The victims were identified as construction workers with the wounded being transferred to a nearby hospital.
 
The helicopters reportedly left Syrian space with all the troops again on board.
 
Sergeant Brooke Murphy, a US military spokesman told AFP that the military was investigating the report.
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Cherifa Sirry is an independent writer and regular correspondent with Axis of Logic with a keen interest in the defense of Palestine and Lebanon. She lives in Egypt and publishes her thoughts on her blog, Wake up From Your Slumber!