More Evidence Of Cheney Hand Behind Black Ops Against Syria

OCT. 28, 2008 (LPAC)--Evidence continues to mount that the illegal U.S. raid on a Syrian village near the Iraq border on Sunday was a White House operation, cooked up by Vice President Cheney, Elliot Abrams, and others intent on blowing up the situation in Southwest Asia. Lyndon LaRouche denounced the raid in no uncertain terms today, emphasizing that Syria “was always the fallback target for the British, if they did not succeed in getting the U.S. or Israel to attack Iran.” LaRouche warned that “all Hell is going to break loose” right after the Nov. 4 U.S. elections.

Pentagon sources report that the helicopter raid on the Syrian border town, in which at least seven people were killed, was conducted by a “black operations” unit, most likely Task Force 88. Task Force 88 is a joint Anglo-American special operations team, comprised of U.S. Delta Force, U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6, British SAS, and CIA intelligence officers, whose main task is to eliminate top leadership of Al Qaeda, in Iraq and Afghanistan. The unit, earlier known as Task Force 20 and Task Force 145, was setup by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, right after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, to specifically circumvent the normal military chain of command--the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the regional CINCs. It is, according to one military source, headquartered in Iraq out of Camp Balad, a large Iraqi base north of Baghdad. Task Force 88 and its predecessor units were deployed into Somalia in the early years of the Bush Administration, also targeting Al Qaeda networks on the continent.

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Syrian villagers shout anti-U.S. slogans as they gather near the coffins of relatives who died a day before when U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack inside the Syrian border, on Monday, Oct. 27, 2008

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