The official news agency, SANA, cited an anonymous official as saying four American helicopters had "launched aggression on a civilian building under construction," killing eight people, and that the Syrian deputy foreign minister had summoned the chargé d'affaires from the American and Iraqi Embassies in protest.
Had Stalin not conspired with Hitler to divide eastern Europe, the Nazis would not have dared to launch their aggression in Poland, and perhaps war would have been prevented.
Yet by launching armed aggression, first against Afghanistan and then against Iraq, America wholly squandered this gain.
The failure to do so by those who launched the aggression reflects a blindly arrogant refusal to accept that people are bound to resist foreign occupation, however much they detest their own government - particularly in a region that has already been subject to decades of destructive western intervention and exploitation.
And what is to be done with the political and military leaders who launch wars of aggression that lead to these crimes?
"America is working on dragging the world toward a great catastrophe by insisting on launching an unjust aggression on Iraq," Mr. Ramadan said, according to the official Iraqi News Agency.
The unprovoked aggression launched by the US and Britain against Iraq five years ago today has already gone down across the world as, to borrow the words of President Roosevelt, "a day which will live in infamy".
Rhodes was a man who launched wars of aggression: he unleashed a paramilitary police force that annexed territory, terrorised civilians, killed thousands of Africans, and stripped thousands more of their land and their rights.
To mark the anniversary of the Iraq war, the newspaper carried an article by Seumas Milne, declaring: "The unprovoked aggression launched by the US and Britain against Iraq five years ago today has already gone down across the world as, to borrow the words of President Roosevelt, 'a day which will live in infamy'".
Illegal wars of aggression launched on the basis of lies are important.
