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The Lionesses of Syria: Assad recruits army of women as he starts to run out of men
The Daily Mail ^ | 23 January 2013 | Sean O'hare

Posted on 01/23/2013 2:48:18 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has recruited an army of women to guard checkpoints and carry out security checks in an attempt to plug the holes left by defections and casualties in his dwindling army.

Up to 500 women have been drafted into the new paramilitary force known as the 'Lionesses for National Defence.'

They have been in trained at a boot camp in Wadi al-Dahab in the Syrian city of Homs.

They form part of the recently formed 10,000-strong National Defence Force (NDF), a key part of Assad's counter insurgency strategy, as the president desperately tries to regain control of the country's towns and cities.

Decked out in army fatigues and armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, the women have also been seen guarding areas of Homs where the majority of locals are known to support the government's regime.

Part of their role is to carry out security checks on veiled women.

A grainy video uploaded four days ago to LiveLeak.com clearly shows at least ten women guarding a checkpoint in Palmyra, Homs.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: syriasoldiers; syriawomen

1 posted on 01/23/2013 2:48:22 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Al Queda is about to have another country to plan terrorism from.


2 posted on 01/23/2013 2:54:21 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There is no requirement to show need in order to exercise your rights.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Leon Panetta is so proud


3 posted on 01/23/2013 2:55:19 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Only uncivilized countries put their women into combat.

Did you hear that, Leon, Barry, Hillary and Huma???


4 posted on 01/23/2013 3:27:03 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Those are some pretty cute army recruits...


5 posted on 01/23/2013 4:22:02 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Smart move on Assad’s part. If the rebels win, women in Syria will get to relive the 7th century.


6 posted on 01/23/2013 5:19:46 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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6 posted on 1/23/2013 7:19:46 PM by Zhang Fei: “Smart move on Assad’s part. If the rebels win, women in Syria will get to relive the 7th century.”

The sad thing is that Assad is right.

Women in Syria who want to be something other than veiled housewives have the most to lose if the Jihadis win. Therefore, some of them are likely to be among Assad's most motivated and loyal supporters.

I am no supporter of Assad, but somebody needs to be reminding Hillary Clinton of her efforts in the 1990s to protect women in Bosnia and Afghanistan against grotesque human rights violations. The feminists were right about the dangers of radical Islam to women's rights. They were right then, and they need to rethink today what they were saying two decades ago.

7 posted on 01/24/2013 7:53:08 AM PST by darrellmaurina
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