claim: says president barack obama attacked potential terrorist targets in syria in the middle of the night "to minimize terrorist casualties."
author: ralph peters
evidence_1: says president barack obama attacked potential terrorist targets in syria in the  middle of the night "to minimize terrorist casualties." — punditfact on thursday ...
evidence_2: says president barack obama attacked potential terrorist targets in syria in the  middle of the night "to minimize terrorist casualties." — punditfact on thursday ...
evidence_3: may 29, 2012 ... president obama has placed himself at the helm of a top secret process to ... 19,  2010, the end of a first year in office punctuated by terrorist plots and .... of the  c.i.a.'s method for counting civilian casualties in drone strikes. ... that have been  targets of human rights groups since the 2001 terrorist attacks.
evidence_4: the war on terror, also known as the global war on terrorism, is an  international military ... u.s. president barack obama announced on 23 may  2013 that the global ... of iraq and syria (isis)—led to a new operation against  terror in the middle .... in her 2011 reith lecture, the former head of mi5 said that  the 9/11 attacks ...
evidence_5: may 23, 2013 ... there have been no large-scale attacks on the united states, and our ... now,  make no mistake, our nation is still threatened by terrorists. ... extremists to gain a  foothold in countries like libya and syria. ..... but the high threshold that we've set  for taking lethal action applies to all potential terrorist targets, ...