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This election year's October surprise…

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… courtesy of U.S. special forces

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Ta-da! Special Forces to the rescue of the McCain campaign. Stay tuned for calls for "the military leader we need in a time of war." Photo: CC/James Gordon

U.S. military helicopters attacked territory inside Syria close to its border with Iraq Sunday, killing eight people in a strike the Syrian government condemned as “serious aggression.”

A U.S. military official said the raid by special forces targeted the foreign fighter network that travels through Syria into Iraq in an area where the Americans have been unable to shut it down because it was out of the military’s reach.

“We are taking matters into our own hands,” the official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the political sensitivity of cross-border raids.

Sat images tell the story: Iraq "surge" a failure

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Sunnis out, Shias in

Sunnis out, Shias in

It is a cornerstone of Republican John MCain’s presidential campaign: The troop surge is working in Iraq.

Now it appears that McCain is telling a lie (albeit not his own invention), again.

The truth: It is ethnic cleansing, not additional U.S. troops, which have caused a decrease in violence in Sunni neighborhoods, according to a UCLA professor.

Satellite images analyzed by UCLA georgraphy professor John Agnew show that the lights are out in neigborhoods that–had they been saved by U.S. troops–would be on.

“Essentially, our interpretation is that violence has declined in Baghdad because of intercommunal violence that reached a climax as the surge was beginning,” said lead author John Agnew, a UCLA professor of geography and authority on ethnic conflict. “By the launch of the surge, many of the targets of conflict had either been killed or fled the country, and they turned off the lights when they left.”

UCLA study of satellite imagery casts doubt on surge’s success in Baghdad.

That's rich: Lady de Rothschild calls Obama "elitist"

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It’s the strongest signal yet from the global elite about who they want in the White House.

Former Hillary Clinton backer Lynn Forester de Rothschild (right) threw her support behind Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain today, after calling Democratic candidate Barack Obama an “elitist.”

That’s got to be a first for a Rothschild, unless there is a “down-to-earth” member of the family I haven’t heard about.

From her Lady de Rothschild’s bio, at the Financial Access Initiative, where she is an advisor: (de Rothschild) is a member of the Chatham House, Council on Foreign Relations and the Foreign Policy Association, and she served as a member of the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee and as the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under President Clinton.

Forester was a major donor for Clinton earning her the title as a Hillraiser for helping to raise at least $100,000 for the New York Democratic senator’s failed presidential bid.

In an interview with CNN this summer, Forester did not hide her distaste for eventual Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

“This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don’t like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.”

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