Cameras Roll as US Helicopters Attack Syrian Village

Syria News: Eyewitnesses said that there were four helicopters. Two helicopters landed, and a group of people got out. They opened fire on construction workers and civilians in the border village of Sukariya, before the helicopters returned to Iraqi territory. A senior source told the official Sana news agency that eight civilians had been killed in the operation, including one woman รขโ‚ฌโ€œ the wife of the guard of the building that was attacked. Another person was wounded.

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October 27, 2008 at 8:31 am - MEMRI TV
Dateline: Abu Kamal, Syria
Kali4   October 27th, 2008 - 10:05 am

“the guard of the building that was attacked.”

No statements about why that building needed to be gaurded. Was it possibly because there was a raid of Syrians crossing into Iraq? There is only the word of the Syrian state-run news here, and they have a long history of calling combatants “innocent civilians” to further their agenda in the Middle East and the rest of the world. I will wait to hear the other side of this “story.”

Klatuu   October 27th, 2008 - 10:06 am

This video is so poor as to be completely unreliable. The images are so blurry as to be almost unrecognizable. The audio/video could have been recorded anywhere in the Middle East and manipulated to serve the purposes of the Syrian “news agency.”

davem   October 27th, 2008 - 10:13 am

Attacked construction workers? yeah right , the ones that were digging with their AK-47′S. CRAP MEDIA ONCE AGAIN

Ed   October 27th, 2008 - 10:14 am

I strongly agree with Kali4… This reporting was clearly hiding something (IE: that the people killed were militants organizing insurgent activities in Iraq). If the reporter speaking was not hiding something, one would presume that far greater outrage would ensue. One might also ask, why the United States would authorize such a diplomatically risky move if the targets of this attack were not up to something less than innocent.

davem   October 27th, 2008 - 10:17 am

What drive these towel heads crazy is that we kill terrorist. plain simple, thats all we want

WHR   October 27th, 2008 - 10:37 am

This could be video of anything. I stopped it several times, trying to ID the helos. Their profiles, while fizzy, look more like a Soviet era helo than a US one, but who knows.

dm   October 27th, 2008 - 10:54 am

davem

Please quit referring to these people as towel heads. Those are not towels, they are sheets.

Don   October 27th, 2008 - 10:57 am

From what I can make of the video, it looks like a twin blade main rotor. And while it doesn’t look like the profile of a Super-Cobra from the video, the sound of the Gatling gun sounds like the M197. If so, that would mean these were Marines.

Comrade Bush   October 27th, 2008 - 10:57 am

What is wrong with going around killing foreign civilians?

Don   October 27th, 2008 - 11:00 am

dm – I believe the politically correct term is RAG.

REVHATCHELL   October 27th, 2008 - 12:10 pm

screw international law, screw sovereign states, and screw whiny dead civilians!

when are people going to realize resistance is futile!

bwaaaahahahaha!

what a second, how are we going to afford to kill people in this economy??

Other   October 27th, 2008 - 12:49 pm

“WHR October 27th, 2008 – 10:37 am

This could be video of anything. I stopped it several times, trying to ID the helos. Their profiles, while fizzy, look more like a Soviet era helo than a US one, but who knows.”

Looks that way. Likely old footage.

But we have attacked terrorist hiding places in “nuetral” countries before.

Need more info…

Wayne   October 27th, 2008 - 1:18 pm

The MSM is lying to us again,whats new? If our troops wasn’t so coddled and lazy we would of won this thing years ago. CIC doesn’t know what he is doing, either.

Other   October 27th, 2008 - 1:41 pm

Its legit!
At least the assault is. On Al Quaeda leader.

Vink   October 27th, 2008 - 1:53 pm

Syrian propaganda. Obama will have a chat with them and fix things. He is, after all, the Left’s Messiah.

Sigh   October 27th, 2008 - 2:29 pm

I saw blurry unidentified helicopters and no dead people. It had to be Bush.

Larse   October 27th, 2008 - 2:40 pm

Looks like we have a new war!!!

The price of gas was getting too low anyway…

Mark   October 27th, 2008 - 2:56 pm

We can’t just go around killing terrorists where we want – we should wait for them to strike inside the U.S. first! That way, we could just employ the otherwise unused military resources in either killing more babies (you mean we can’t top 1.3 million year in the U.S.?) or redistributing the wealth.

RRM   October 27th, 2008 - 3:07 pm

Perhaps those were stranded North Korean construction workers. Remember, the ones working so hard on that humanitarian nuclear project that got popped while the great Denis K was visiting?

The Truth   October 27th, 2008 - 3:22 pm

HIlarious.

What a joke. Reminds me of the Iranians testing their new “photoshop” missle.

Maybe they’re sharing media departments?

We’re not up against geniuses here. Just cave dwellers w/ a kindergarten grasp of propaganda.

Other   October 27th, 2008 - 4:05 pm

This is real. Try looking at legitimate news sources once in awhile

JOHN   October 27th, 2008 - 4:15 pm

My only regret is that I wasn’t with our brave men to give a helping hand. About time we really get on the offensive!! Might be too little too late of Obama Boy gets into office.

TheTruth   October 27th, 2008 - 4:46 pm

Most cetainly the event was real.

The footage, and Syrian “facts” are up for debate.

Aqmad   October 27th, 2008 - 7:25 pm

So what, you have a problem do something about it!

Rage heads sheet heads, there still sandngrs

john   October 27th, 2008 - 8:26 pm

Special forces doing what they do best, in and out. The Syrians can propagandize all they want. I’m sure we will hear the result of the strike in days to come. Another terrorist bites the dust.

John   October 27th, 2008 - 8:40 pm

SOURCES REPORT: A US counterterrorism official said Monday OCT. 27, that American Special Forces killed the head of a Syrian network the funneled fighters, weapons and cash in to Iraq when they raided Abu Kemal 7 km inside Syria Sunday. The unnamed official said the raid targeted the home of Abu Ghadiyah, leader of a key cell of foreign fighters in Iraq. A villager said the US force grapped two men and took them away by helicopter when they flew back to Iraq.

Distant Observer   October 28th, 2008 - 8:36 am

Seriously guys, what she was really saying was “Thank you Americans for coming over here and savings us. These guys don’t give a damn about us or our freedoms. I am sick and tired of being their puppet and reading only what they allow me to say. Save us from these idiots.”

On a serious note though, why would the military go in, jump out, kill 8 people, construction workers and just normal people and then run out again? Does that make any sense? Its not like the Syrian television wants to make Americans feel welcome with warm fuzzies from the Syrian people. I don’t believe Syrian television anymore than I believe American television.

Outsider   October 29th, 2008 - 7:57 am

Syria is looking at starting peace talks with Israel, brokered by Turkey. It’s been a long time coming. I personally wouldn’t authorize military attacks inside Syria if I was the Smurf-in-Chief right now, as any sort of peace between Syria and Israel would go a long way to cooling things in the Middle East.

Violating airspace and killing 8 people just to hit one smuggler? Seems a bit OTT, to me. I’ll put money down that this is not the whole story.

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