WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. military conducted a successful strike into Syria on Sunday to kill a suspected al Qaeda facilitator, a U.S. official said Monday.
"We will not bow for America. No, No, No for America," reads a sign during a funeral in Syria on Monday.
The American official, who would not be identified but who has access to U.S. intelligence, identified the intended target of the attack as "Abu Ghadiya," an Iraqi whose family the official said has been active in smuggling money, weapons and foreign fighters across the Syrian border into Iraq.
Syrian foreign minister Waleed Mouallem disputed the explanation.
"This is lies from the United States," Mouallem said.
Earlier, Mouallem had said at a news conference in London, England, that the United States violated international law and Syrian sovereignty.
"Killing civilians in international law means terrorist aggression," he said. "We consider this criminal and terrorist aggression."
The U.S. official, who asked to remain anonymous because of the classified nature of the operation, also confirmed that U.S. helicopters and military special operations forces carried out the attack.
Further acts of aggression will not be tolerated, Mouallem said. "If they do it again, we will defend our territories," he said.
Oooh, I'm so scared! Look at me, I'm trembling!
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Oooh, I'm so scared! Look at me, I'm trembling!
No, the terrorist nation of the united states should not be afraid of Syria. It should be afraid of the living God.
And so should you, if you support this terrorist action by the united states.
Really, Michael, with all the grandstanding you have to do at various sites, do you have time for this one-horse blog?
- Is there a problem?
- [Pablo:] He just killed him! He put his f___ing nose through his brain!
- I needed a light.
- Joseph, you don't disappoint me. You took an awful risk. Pablo here could have shot you dead.
- If you wanted me dead,
you'd have killed me already.
- That's true ... Can we do a formal introduction?
- Who gives a f___? ... You're the bad guy, right?
- I am the bad guy.
- And I'm supposed to tremble with fear, right?
- Something like that.
- Fine. I'll start trembling in a minute. In the meantime, could I have a drink?
- I don't see why not. Take the corpse away, and fix Mr. Hallenbeck a drink. Make that two.
(Bruce Willis, in "The Last Boy Scout"). :-) --> The dialogue follows directly after this scene. :-)
Though I'm not an anarchist, and I don't think this is terrorism, it does reveal the growing problem that, even when we can't take on all our enemies. The situation in Pakistan is even worse; we pay them off at about $10 billion a year, and they're still unreliable and often supportive of terrorists. Eventually, we likely won't be able to pay them off either. While it's true that the rest of the world will keep loaning the USA money, since the collapse of our economy would be distastrous for their own prosperity, they will increasingly have less of an incentive to do so as other economic powers grow in relative influence. Theoretically, we could probably extract ourselves from the financial mess we're in by severely cutting back our military and entitlement spending, but sadly that would be impossible in the political realm.
It's not so much that we should fear the terrorists; we should fear for the state of our empire when weak nations can continue to harbor terrorists just across the border of our foremost military front. Whether it is a good or a bad thing, we haven't the resources to do more than lob a few missiles at them.
-we haven't the resources to do more than lob a few missiles at them.-
Well, we have the resources but they are bogged down in Iraq for eternity, that's the problem. I think Iraq will go down as Bush's big blunder. Though he won two terms, which is a rarity, his will be about as glorified as those of US Grant - two terms and not much good came out of them.
I only posted this because I thought it was funny that some guy in Syria really thinks we care about his borders or their defense. "Hey, your real estate is about as attractive as a suburb in one of our cities (where they are all foreclosing!). We don't want to stay. We only came to kill terrorists!"
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