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Originally Posted by Skybird
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Originally Posted by Mikhayl
Insurgents in Iraq & Afghanistan have been recruited in Europe, so we could say that Europe harbours terrorists as well. Yet it wouldn't be fine if a US strike team shot 1 presumed insurgent-wannabee and 7 civilians passing by in a European street. But Arab civilians are fair game.
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Europe tries to hunt down such sleepers and Islamic terrorists. Syria does not, but tolerates their presence. A small but decisive difference. |
The humanitarians we are, we only kidnap those suspected of terrorism living in Europe.
And to be fair, the target in the Syrian raid was much more than a suspect. After al-Zarqawi was killed there was some speculation that the man killed in Syria would take over for him. He was indicted ~2004 by a Jordanian court for being part of a cell lead by his buddy al-Zarqawi that planned a chemical attack in that country. He was a bad guy.
It seems that they had solid intelligence (of which there is precious little concerning people like him) on where he was and a decision was made that he was important enough to kill even if there were civillians around and we had to piss of the Syrians.
I don't know if it's a decision I agree with, but I know it's a decision I would never want to make.
PD