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Top Stories October 30, 3008US launches strike in SyriaUS Special Operations forces staged an attack across the Iraq border into Syria on Sunday, reportedly killing eight people and capturing at least two others. The daylight raid, which echoes a similar strike last month in Pakistan, marks by far the most open incursion into Syrian territory since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Officials in Damascus condemned the US government's "cowboy politics" and warned that any future territorial breaches will result in a military confrontation. Although the US has refused to publicly acknowledge the strike, anonymous reports confirm that American forces entered Syria to target an alleged Iraqi insurgent, Abu Ghadiya, who is accused of smuggling militants across the border. Ghadiya is believed to have died in the attack. Croatia facing organized-crime waveCroatia is reeling from an apparent mafia hit on two journalists in its capital city of Zagreb. Ivo Pukanić (pictured), publisher and editor of the weekly newspaper Nacional, was killed by a car bomb, alongside Niko Franjić, the publication's marketing director. Pukanić was known for reportage on the country's corruption, and had survived what he claimed was an assassination attempt in April. Such attacks are not new; in October, the killing of a prominent lawyer's daughter resulted in Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's dismissal of two government ministers. Although Croatia has been economically ascendant in recent years — following a late-'90s swoon — its hopes of EU admission by 2011 may be derailed by the surge of violence. |
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