Questions Raised Over Syrian ComplicityIn US Raid -- Times Online
Syria has denounced a US strike on its territory but sources say Damascus secretly backed the raid
The 38-year-old farmer was watering his maize in the scrubby vastness of eastern Syria when four Black Hawk helicopters swooped in low over the palm trees, heading from the border with Iraq formed by the Euphrates River.
It was late afternoon. The light was fading and the chill of the desert winter night was setting in. The helicopters, following their leader in a disciplined arc, hovered just above the one-storey concrete and mud homes of the village of Sukariyeh before the attack began.
Two of them landed next to a ramshackle building site and uniformed men hit the ground firing. Two other helicopters gave aerial cover.
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My Comment: We will probably never know the true story behind this operation .... except that a top Al Qaeda operative is now dead.