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	<title><![CDATA[America's Military Attack in Syria -- Possible Reasons and Likely Costs]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-levy/americas-military-attack_b_138662.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Details are finally emerging of the American military operation inside Syria in Abu Kamal on Sunday afternoon. While there still has been no official on-record briefing from the Pentagon, unnamed DoD sources have filled in some of the gaps and <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/54828.html">reports </a> on the operation appear in today's press. The target was apparently "Abu al-Ghadiyah" (Badran al-Mazidi), described alternatively as a high-ranking AQI (al-Qaeda in Iraq) operative or facilitator of smugglings and infiltration networks from Syria into Iraq, and...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-11-28T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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