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Syria Says 'Terrorist Infiltration' from Turkey Foiled
[An Nahar] Syria foiled an operation by "terrorists" to infiltrate the country from neighboring Turkey, the official news agency SANA reported on Tuesday.

"Border guards last (Monday) night thwarted an attempted infiltration by armed terrorist groups from Turkey" in the Ain Bayda sector of Idlib province of northwest Syria, it said.

It added that an unspecified number of the 35 gunnies were maimed and the rest decamped back into Turkey, without any casualties among the border guards.

"Cars were heard taking the maimed gunnies away on the Turkish side," SANA reported.

A rebel Free Syrian Army, based in Turkey and made up of army deserters, has been battling the security forces waging a crackdown on anti-regime protests that the United Nations
...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country...
says has cost more than 4,000 lives since mid-March.


Posted by: Fred 2011-12-07
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=334789