Beirut - US embassy sources in Beirut said Sunday evening that a US diplomat in Damascus was called in to the Syrian Foreign Ministry over the reported incident of a US military raid inside Syria. The sources said US charge d'affaires in Damascus, Maura Connelly, was summoned to the foreign ministry which issued a protest over the raid.
Lebanese sources meanwhile said the US commando forces had stormed a building suspected of harbouring fundamentalist militants preparing to infiltrate into Iraq.
The US and Lebanese sources were commenting on developments reported in Syria, in which US forces carried out a helicopter-borne commando raid inside Syria on Sunday, killing nine people and wounding 14 in a village not far from the Syrian-Iraqi border.
Local eyewitness accounts said the attack took place about 5.45 pm (1545 GMT) at the village of
