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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Dupe entry: Syria Claims US Attack
2008-10-26
(Chuck — the map gets posted as a box with a red x

Combining three different entries:
The Euphrates river flows through this area. The Iraqi town of al Qaim is right on the border. Americans have struck targets in this area before.

BBC
Unidentified helicopters have carried out an attack inside Syria along its border with Iraq, Syrian media says.

The official Syrian news agency Sana said the raid took place in the Bou Kamal border area, in eastern Syria.

One report said that the helicopters were American, but there is no independent confirmation.

The Sana news agency quoted residents as saying that the attack targeted a house in the area in which a man and his four sons and two workers died.


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Also posted by TW & FrankG with comments from FrankG

Syria's state-run television and witnesses say U.S. military helicopters have attacked an area along the country's border with Iraq, causing casualties.
among high value targets?
The report quoted unnamed Syrian officials and said the area is near the Syrian border town of Abu Kamal. It gave no other details on Sunday's attack.

Local residents told The Associated Press by telephone that two helicopters carrying U.S. soldiers raided the village of Hwijeh, 10 miles inside Syria's border, killing seven people and wounding five.
amazing how local residents in targeted villages always have the AP's number handyThe U.S. military in Baghdad had no immediate comment.
Posted by:Chuck Simmins

#5  So. How did some non-military (presumably) witnesses know these were US troops and aircraft?

Richard, it was Snowy.. that's all I can say.
(Ich kann nicht ander no more sayen)
Posted by: .5MT   2008-10-26 23:16  

#4  Now that more info has come out, it appears that the US WANTS the bad guys to know who they're facing.
Posted by: Herb Elmatch8158   2008-10-26 22:01  

#3  So. How did some non-military (presumably) witnesses know these were US troops and aircraft?
Was this so routine there was no attempt to black out various identifiable markings? If so....
Or did it happen at all?
Or did the Israelis do it?
Or did the Syrians do it in order to create a "situation" of some kind?
To repeat, How did anybody know these were US troops?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2008-10-26 18:57  

#2  thx Sherry. My comments were no more insightful than the usual RBers, but why would we being doing this (if we did, it is AP) unless there was a rewarding goal at the end? High-val target, or never happened?
Posted by: Frank G   2008-10-26 17:36  

#1  Black HelioCopturs for a black time. Gawd willing we will have stolen 88 barrels of crude......

hey wait a second.... dis ain't... OE. Sorry. BRB.
Posted by: .5MT   2008-10-26 17:21  

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