US Special Forces Syria ops: Was it a possible al Qaeda leader ‘Snatch’?
by Jerry Gordon, The Iconoclast, October 27, 2008
When the AP news flashed last night on the US Special Forces cross border attack into Syria from Iraq, I had posted this on Israpundit: “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”. N.B. This US Special Forces attack inside Syria was heliborne and did not use armed Predator UAVs as was the case in the March, 2008 Sadr City battle. Could it be that intelligence was obtained on CBW WMD that Syria may have been supplying to Al Qaeda foreign fighters? Just a few months ago, terrorist websites were chattering about how al Qaeda fighters in Iraq were being decimated. As Alice said in Wonderland: “curioser and curioser”.
Today, the Long War Journal has another explanation that appears to be credible: a ‘snatch’ operation of a senior al Qaeda commander in Syria. Note this comment:
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US special operations hunter-killer teams entered Syria in an attempt to capture Abu Ghadiya, a senior al Qaeda leader who has been in charge of the Syrian network since 2005. US intelligence analysts identified Ghadiya as the leader of the Syrian network, The Washington Post reported in July. Ghadiya was identified as a “major target” by the US military in February 2008.
Here’s the latest update from Long War Journal.
Not a snatch. A kvatch!
Comment by Shy Guy — October 27, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
AP, just reported that FBI or some other anonymous unnamed agency disrupted a plot to assassinate BHO by skin heads. Still got to June 20th to stop him. Bummer! Al-Queda might still have a friend on Penn. Ave?
Comment by yamit82 — October 27, 2008 @ 3:24 pm