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.
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Al Queda is about to have another country to plan terrorism from.
Leon Panetta is so proud
Only uncivilized countries put their women into combat.
Did you hear that, Leon, Barry, Hillary and Huma???
Those are some pretty cute army recruits...
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.
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