Posted on 10/19/2013 12:46:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Tim Montgomerie has a horrifying story in the London Times about women and children being targeted in Syria:
David Nott, who has just spent five weeks volunteering in a Syrian hospital, said that he and his despairing colleagues started to notice a disturbing pattern among the women and children who were being shot as they ran the daily gauntlet across a divided zone to buy food and supplies in a major city.
“One day it would be shots to the groin. The next, it would only be the left chest. The day after, we would see no chest wounds; they were all neck [wounds],” he said in an interview with The Times. “From the first patients that came in in the morning, you could almost tell what you would see for the rest of the day. It was a game. We heard the snipers were winning packets of cigarettes for hitting the correct number of targets.”
He said local rumours suggested that the snipers were mercenaries from China and Azerbaijan, working for the Assad regime. This cannot be verified.
Mr Nott has been volunteering as an emergency surgeon in war zones in countries such as Bosnia, Libya, Chad, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the past 20 years. However, he said that Syria was the only place in which he had witnessed civilians, and in particular pregnant women, being targeted.
On one day, more than half a dozen pregnant women were caught in sniper fire. On another day, two consecutive patients were heavily pregnant women. Both survived but their babies were dead on arrival.
In one case, a baby had a bullet in its brain. “The women were all shot through the uterus, so that must have been where they were aiming for. I can’t even begin to tell you how awful it was. Usually, civilians are caught in the crossfire. This is the first time I’ve ever seen anything like this. This was deliberate. It was hell beyond hell.”
I like the press speculation that it MUST be Assad, and blithely ignoring the al-qeada affiliated terrorists in Syria for whom this is part and parcel.
Has anyone noticed that Obama never has any comment about Christians’ being murdered?
I’m not ready to read this story. The headline is grim enough in my mind this close to bedtime. Bastante ,hasta la Manana! Enough horror.
Obama’s ineptitude has emboldened all the crazed murderers.
That is exactly right. America is a laughingstock under the African communist scumbag Ubama. He'll deal with this silly Syrian stuff some other time - - right now he's at war with tea party patriots and conservatives who want to save the nation from him and his ilk.
>>>He said local rumours suggested that the snipers were mercenaries from China and Azerbaijan, working for the Assad regime. This cannot be verified.<<<
Wag the Dog.
Obama’s Al Quaida.
It’s coming straight out of the oval office.
Which PR firm concocted this one I wonder.
Has anyone verified that this is actually happening?
>> I like the press speculation that it MUST be Assad
It’s the anti-Assad contingent that’s responsible. Only an honest idiot would think otherwise.
Lol, “honest idiot”.
As opposed to the press.
My thoughts exactly. Seems to be a crueler version of the gas attacks with all those ‘dead’ children.
I guess in order to be sure, one would have to know the religion of the victims.
Really? are they feeding them into a plastic shredder feet first too? You know, like Qusay Hussein used to do. Oh wait, he never really did that. It was all just war propaganda spread by the US government to justify their war for petrodollar hegemony.
Glad you picked that up. The press knowingly lies.
Yes, and all too often.
They have forgotten what they exist for.
Indeed!
There is power in telling the facts, the truth, and letting people decide for themselves.
The press threw that away in exchange for a false power as a nattering lapdog of ideology driven “opinion shaping” and false narratives.
Wonder what it would take for them to figure out just how bought and paid for in the red light district they are?
One of their own to be devoured by the regime for accidentally doing real journalism?
Yes, a mindless conduit for the Marxist regime.
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