Gentleman, I appreciate the pain you feel after serving, anf the horro you saw. yes I agree, the ladies in this country who have never served in combat should be sent to the front to espouse their ridiculous ideas. I am sure AQI would love to spill their blood. And by ladies i mean the non-serving """""men"""" in this country. Look at all the major civilizations of History, and the citizen soldier is the builder and backbone of that society. when you quit using citizen soldiers (example the American settlers/farmers who were revolutionary war/civil war troops) you loose the edge that makes your society great. Is this why Rome fell?? Why Greece fell? I work for a company ( a world wide company) who's CEO sent out greeting to members of the armed forces who are currently serving overseas on Veterans Day. Nice, but he didnt aknowledge any other conflict or service, strange. but it just goes to show how true you comments about civilians not being in touch with the people who protect them. As a former Marine Sergeant 5th Maines I Corps Vietnam I salute you. and agree with you. semper fi
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Targeting a 'Facilitator'
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The Treasury report claimed that as of the spring of last year, Abu Ghadiyah was still moving foreign fighters into Iraq and that he was in charge of another AQI facilitator in Syria who helped to move militants from Persian Gulf states over the border into Iraq. The Treasury report claimed that Abu Ghadiyah received hundreds of thousands of dollars in financing from a cousin; the two of them, along with two other associates, had their U.S. assets frozen last February after the Bush administration formally designated them as financiers of terrorism. The Treasury statement also accused Abu Ghadiyah of using Al Qaeda funds "for his personal use," though it did not elaborate.
White House and other official Bush administration spokesmen declined to discuss the alleged commando raid into Syria or to comment on the possible death of Abu Ghadiyah. A Treasury official said, however, that Abu Ghadiyah was still on their list of alleged terror moneymen subjected to U.S. financial sanctions. Even after accused terrorist financiers die, their names stay on Treasury lists to ensure that any bank accounts they might have maintained remain frozen.
The alleged U.S. commando raid in Syria marks the latest twist in a tangled history between the U.S. and Syria over terrorism. After 9/11, the two countries reportedly engaged in information exchanges about Al Qaeda and other terror suspects that were quite productive. The U.S. and some of its allies were accused of collaborating in the transfer of terrorist suspects to Syria for interrogation and, allegedly, torture—even in the cases of some suspects later found not to have been involved in violence. Since the Iraq War began, however, the Bush administration has periodically accused the Syrian government of at the very least turning a blind eye when it comes to the movement of foreign fighters via its territory into Iraq.
News of the alleged U.S. commando raid in Syria surfaced amid a regular flow of reports of alleged U.S. missile attacks on purported Al Qaeda targets inside Pakistan. U.S. sources have said that those attacks also are directed at encampments of suspected "foreign fighters" believed to be using Pakistan as a base to stage attacks on American fighters and their allies as they conducted military operations across the border inside Afghanistan.
Terror Watch appears weekly on Newsweek.com.
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