US Special Forces Murder Family in Syria
On October 26, 2008, U.S. helicopters stormed a farm near the Iraq-Syria border and brutally killed 7 people within the farm walls. Anonymous Pentagon sources claimed that there was an Al-Qaeda terrorist, Abu Ghadiya, with in the walls of the farm. This terrorist is held responsible for smuggling men and arms across the Iraqi-Syrian border.
In the process of “killing” this terrorist, U.S. killed 7 people within the farm walls. They killed a father, his four sons, including a teenage boy, the father’s visiting friend, and the night watchman. The U.S. troops also severely wounded the night watches wife; she and her six-year-old son along with a man Hamid, were the only survivors. As witnesses of this event say that there was no one was shooting back at the U.S. Soldiers because they had no weapons to fire back.
It became suspicious when there were no reports of Al-Qaeda terrorists, or Abu Ghadiya, death. These people were brutally shot, 10 or more bullets to each body, and there is no body or official report that this terrorist was killed. There also was no official announcement about the raid. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, in August of 2006, announced the death of Ghadiya. One Syrian official says that the U.S. never showed him any proof that Ghadiya was alive after 2006.
Title: The Murders at al-Sukariya
Source: Vanity Fair October 27, 2008
URL: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/10/al-sukariya-200910
Author: Reese Erlich and Peter Coyote
Student Researcher: Trinity Cambon
Faculty Advisor: Keith Gouveia
Sonoma State University
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Comments (18)
I loverd this article that tells disturbing truths about our governments.
Good stuff!
Hershworthy
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We need this type of reporting.
Job well done.
Excellent reporting of a terrible tragedy which would have remained buried.
Shine a light on what goes on.
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All thumbs up! An article that reminds us how much we don’t learn from mainstream journalism.
Horrifying. It is only by revealing such horrors as this that it will stop. Thanks to Erlich and Coyote for revealing this. Shame on the mainstream.
brilliant work.
Patriotic reporting — it tells the truth.
Important article.
Truly first rate work!
Well written and thought provoking.
These reporters have the kind of guts and integrity that is all too sadly vanishing from journalism today!
Thank God for independent writers like Ehrlich and Peter Coyote, who bear witness both to the present shameful course the US is pursuing on the world stage, and the spirit of courageous and independent inquiry that will help heal us. This is an important and well-written story. A 5.
Hear hear!
Excellent work. A very timely and sound piece of investigative journalism that sheds much needed light on issues that strike at the core of American values, manipulative foreign policy and poor strategy and tactics that in the end targets ourselves.
So disturbing on several levels, what it says about our government’s attitude and behaviors outside and within our country. An important piece that reinforces past and current wrongdoings.