U.S. Shameful Attack In Syria: Video Report

A US official has confirmed that Special Forces carried out a raid inside Syrian territory on Sunday, presumably targeting fighters staging attacks in Iraq.

Syria (who is understandably not amused) said the soldiers attacked a house in a farming area near the town of Abu Kamal, about 8km inside the border with Iraq.

Two men are presumed to have been captured by U.S. Special Forces and brought back to Iraq (care to guess what awaits them?)

Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports:

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On a related note:

Suspected U.S. strike kills up to 20 in Pakistan

A suspected U.S. missile strike killed up to 20 people in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, officials said, the latest salvo in an intensifying assault on militant hideouts near the Afghan border.

The reported strike occurred in the South Waziristan region, part of Pakistan's wild border zone that is considered a possible hiding place for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.

Allow me to reiterate:

(...) this arrogant and dangerous Bush Doctrine to attack any time, anywhere in any soverign country (Pakistan being another recent example) in the name of the ludicrous Global War on Terror(TM) has to be relegated to the hash heap of incompetence and history.

This is criminal (check the U.N. charter, if you will) and must be disavowed by the American people once and for all.

I wonder how the U.S. would feel if other countries would do the same to them?

(...) This is the convenient reasoning of rogue nations (emphasis added):

A U.S. military official said the raid by special forces targeted the foreign fighter network that travels through Syria into Iraq. The Americans have been unable to shut the network down in the area because Syria was out of the military's reach.

"We are taking matters into our own hands," the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the political sensitivity of cross-border raids.

Indeed - the same kind of reasoning by any incompetent, by every criminal - "take what you want when you want, who cares what others think?"

That is the Bush Doctrine for you.

Did I say "rogue nation"?

Yeah - I thought I did ...

'Nuff said.