Posted on 09/06/2013 6:16:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
Video footage has emerged which shows the moment seven of President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian soldiers are executed on camera by rebels fighting to overthrow the regime...
...The horrific scene filmed in April 2012 was documented in a video smuggled out of Syria only a few days ago by a former rebel who says he had become horrified by the brutality of the tactics his one-time comrades are using. He gave the footage to The New York Times....
Issa is known as 'the uncle' because two of his deputies are his nephews.
His former aide, who had the copy of the footage, said the captured soldiers' allegedly had videos of them raping Syrian civilians and looting which led to the execution.
Issa requested the execution be filmed so he could show it to donors to help secure more funding.
...It is believed Issa has the support of around 300 fighters willing to carry out the executions of captured soldiers...
His father was opposed to President Hafez al-Assad, the father of Syria’s current president, but in 1982, he disappeared.
Issa believes he was killed during a 27-day government crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood which sparked his hatred of the government...
Earlier this year, another sickening video showed a rebel leader eating the heart of a captured soldier.
The clip seems to show a man, believed to be the well-known founder of Homs' Farouq Brigade Abu Sakkar, standing over the uniformed corpse in a ditch while ranting against President Bashar al Assad.
Using a knife, the man hacked open the torso and removed two organs before holding them up to the camera and declaring: 'I swear to God we will eat your hearts and your livers, you soldiers of Bashar the dog.'
He then raised one to his mouth and took a bite...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Just pointing out that war crimes (like the Sec. Clinton supported MURDER of a POW named Mommar Gaddafi “WE came, WE saw, HE DIED!”) are not criticized by this administration when they are committed by Islamists.
Love the poster. Of course there is also the other group that stopped a bus load of Kurds and beheaded all 40 of them including a mother and her baby. Just the kind of guys we want to be in bed with.
The trick is finding a good photo to use. Too gruesome and people click away quickly. The NYT found a good balance with this one.
they are trying to make Assad’s armed forces to desert - to run. This was a favorite tactic among the ancients.
VOTERS EXPLODE ON JOHN MCCAIN AT PHOENIX TOWN HALL: ‘WE DIDN’T SEND YOU TO MAKE WAR FOR US’
2nd video at link.
Because we saw it, it is real, and it happened.
So now we react, because we saw it.
What an interesting visual culture we are.
The American Left is STILL in denial about Stalin’s gulags and the murders of Mao.
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