Leaked STRATFOR Memo Says US SOF in Syria 09 Mar 2012 U.S. Special Operation Forces reportedly have been in Syria since December training groups to conduct guerrilla attacks and assassinations to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to a leaked Stratfor memo published by WikiLeaks. But Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. James Gregory suggested the memo warranted being read skeptically. [?] The claim of American Spec Ops Forces operating in Syria is made in an internal email dated Dec. 7, 2011, from an official at Stratfor, a Texas-based private intelligence-gathering company.
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