Paul Wood
BBC News
October 30, 2008
Souad Khousaim lay very still on her hospital bed and in a quiet voice wracked with pain told me she was one of the innocent victims of Sunday’s raid by US special forces.
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“I went outside to get my son and the Americans shot me,” she says. “They were very close, five metres away. I was screaming, terrified.”
Her husband was among the seven Syrian men who died, but hospital officials have not told her this yet.
The US military sent troops 8km (five miles) into Syria, to the village of Sukkiraya, to take action which they hope will help shut down al-Qaeda’s secret pipeline into Iraq for men, weapons and money.
The mission was to capture or kill, Abu Ghadiya, an Iraqi-born al-Qaeda cell leader the US says has helped to bring thousands of jihadist fighters across the border.
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