A useful idiot learns a hard lesson.
Posted on 05/20/2014 1:43:15 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
...and shot by his Muslim ‘friends’ in Syria
AWWWW
War reporter was bound, beaten and shot twice in Syria by a Muslim ‘rebel’ he considered a friend. Anthony Loyd and photographer Jack Hill were snatched by gun-toting Hakim Anza’s gang – just hours after they had been guests in the warlord’s home.
Times correspondent Loyd, 47, who feared he faced certain death, labeled the behavior of Anza in war-torn Syria “flawless treachery.” Loyd first met Hakim two years ago. The accountant, in his 30s, had been one of the earliest to rebel against President Assad. Writing in The Times, Loyd said: “Jack and I had stayed with him several times. “I had seen him cry over the bodies of his dead fighters, exalt over the lives of his three young children, and I had slept and eaten on the same floors with him in Aleppo’s urban front lines. “I considered Hakim a friend. Part of the reason I visited him before going to Turkey, was to congratulate him on his daughter’s birth.”
But he had a nasty shock in store. As Hill, Loyd, their local fixer and a bodyguard made their way towards the Turkish border, their car was flagged down by a camouflaged man in a 4×4. Four gunmen leapt out and bundled the group, handcuffed and blindfolded, into the vehicle before driving them to a lock-up garage in the northern Syrian city of Tal Rifat – where Anza was based.
Loyd recognized one of his captors as a member of Hakim’s gang, who had served him breakfast that morning. The journalist managed to get free after Jack and the pair’s fixer Hamza forced their way out of the car boot. Loyd then made a daring bid for freedom: “I had climbed the lock-up stairs and was making my escape across the roofs, my hands still bound. “This went well, until the roofs ran out. For a time I squeezed flat in a narrow slash of shadow against a water tank, planning to wait until darkness. But people in the street had seen my rooftop dash and were pointing out my position to gunmen below.
“I scrambled down a ladder and, as women fled a courtyard below, I ran into a private home, clamped a kitchen knife between my teeth and attempted to saw through the cuffs securing my wrists. “Then two Kalashnikov bullets hit the wall beside me.”
Cornered, he faced a terrifying showdown with Hakim: “His men burst in, dragged me out and started beating me round the head with rifle butts. I was covered in blood on the ground when Hakim walked up, white with rage. “‘I thought you were my friend,’ I told him. ‘No friends,’ he replied, shooting me twice in the ankle just to have the satisfaction of crippling me.” Anthony Lloyd In Hospital: Shot and with a fractured skull and hip Anthony Lloyd In Hospital: Shot and with a fractured skull and hip Another of Hakim’s henchmen, who had been in a struggle with photographer Hill during their break for freedom, was then allowed to set upon Loyd. “After punching and kicking me for what seemed like eternity, he picked up a rock and smashed it across my head.
He was handed to doctors, and Hakim’s superiors in the Islamist Front ordered Hakim to flee. Loyd and Hill safely reached Turkey on Wednesday. Shameless Hakim later contacted Loyd on Friday using web-chat service Skype to accuse him of being a CIA spy. Loyd said today: “His greatest crime was to rob our notebooks, cameras and video.
A useful idiot learns a hard lesson.
Prolly shattered his ankle. He'll be walking with a limp the rest of his life. He should have stayed the he!! away but he was attracted to ______Islam______ like a moth to a flame. He probably read reams of liberal lies about Islam
Just guessing, but he probably is an Obama supporter.
We have friends in Paris. Her dad fought in Algeria. She has NOTHING nice to say about Muslims - ‘they’ll stab you in the back.’ etc.
bttt
Trusting a Muslim is like trusting a cobra.
He's British, right?
..and as the poisoned frog slipped beneath the waves, he turned to the scorpion and asked, “Why did you sting me? You will die as well.” The scorpion replied, “It’s my nature.”
There was a day when these savages knew their place when Westerners came around....
Interestingly, this now-crippled idiot says that his 'friend's' worst crime was stealing his camera.
Did he? Or will he just swoon for the next warlord that bats his eyes at him? Remember the definition of insanity...libs have a way of repeating the same behaviors and expecting different results...
you are assuming he learned the same lesson you and i already know.
he could still be a massive apologist for “true” islam as our libtards here are fond of being. ie that hakim doesn’t represent real islam.
Dhim Wit
There is no cure for stupidity.
Did he learn anything from it or will he stay as dumb as before?
You knew I was a snake when you picked me up, and if you didn’t, it was probably because you read and believed the NYT.
That's unexpected. Who would have guessed that the friendship would turn out to be so short-lived?
There was a day when Westerners had common sense in their dealings with Muslims.
Typical naive Infidel approach to Islam.-tom
Koran ch 4 line 144
: O ye who believe! Choose not disbelievers for (your) friends in place of believers. Would ye give Allah a clear warrant against you?
In case a Muslim didn't get the message it is repeated again.-Tom
Koran ch 5 line 51,
: O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.
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