U.S. Special Forces strike inside Syria kills eight terrorists, including Al Qaeda leader Abu Ghadiya. The strike 'decapitated' al Qaeda's facilitation network in Syria.
"Ghadiya was the leader of al Qaeda extensive network that funnels foreign fighters, weapons, and cash from Syria into Iraq along the entire length of the Syrian border."
Syria sat on it's hands concerning these rats who coordinated & facilitated bombings in Iraq. Syria is now making impotent protest noises against the U.S. at the U.N.
"Ghadiya, whose real name is Badran Turki Hishan Al Mazidih, was an Iraqi from Mosul. He was working as an al Qaeda logistics coordinator in Syria since 2004, when he was appointed to the position by Abu Musab al Zarqawi. After Zarqawi's death, he "took orders directly, or through a deputy" from Abu Ayyub al Masri, al Qaeda's current leader in Iraq."
Also killed were Ghadiya's brother, Akram Turki Hishan Al Mazidih, & his two cousins, Ghazy Fezza Hishan Al Mazidih and Saddah Jaylut Al Marsumis. All were senior members of al Qaeda's foreign facilitation network.
"All four men lived openly inside Syria. The US Treasury identified Ghadiya, Ghazy, and Akram as living in Zabadani. Marsumi lived in the village of Al Shajlah.
A senior US general and the Iraqi spokesmen both noted that al Qaeda leaders were openly living inside Syria, and the Syrian government did nothing to shut down the network.
"The attacked area was the scene of activities of terrorist groups operating from Syria against Iraq," Ali al Dabbagh, Iraq's spokesman told Reuters. "Iraq had asked Syria to hand over this group which uses Syria as a base for its terrorist activities."
Michael Yon brings it up close and personal with a look at the people known as Yezidis, Iraqi villagers in Nineveh, who suffered terribly from these foreign al qaeda rats, and their Bloody Border, Messy Politics reign of death.
