Posted on 02/27/2015 5:04:51 PM PST by blam
Hollie McKay
February 27, 2015
Just 12 miles north of the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul, an American filmmaker and self-styled revolutionary is running a boot camp for Christians willing and able to fight for their lives and faith against the murderous Islamic terror organization.
Matthew VanDyke, an award-winning documentary filmmaker who escaped a Libyan prison after going there to help overthrow Col. Muammar Qaddafi in 2011, is helping to train hundreds of long-persecuted Assyrian Christians in everything from firearms to close quarters combat. VanDyke, who founded the security contracting firm company Sons of Liberty (SOLI), is working with an unnamed U.S. military veteran to get the Christian conscripts who range in age from 18 to 60 or older, ready to take on the ominous black clad army that lies dug in to Iraq's second-largest city just over the horizon. Earlier this week, the first battalion of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU) graduated from the boot camp.
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linkees no workee.
Ballsy guy.
Obama will attack them with a Drone soon
Ping.
In their meeting in the North Atlantic, Roosevelt and Churchill attended Sunday morning services on board the HMS Prince of Wales.
Churchill was asked to select the hymns for the service. One of them was “Onward Christian Soldiers”. I have seen film of the service and both of them were singing it by heart tho Roosevelt did glance at the hymnal a couple of times.
Thx. Yeah, I should searched the web.
I'll donate a little money to make that happen.
OCS was far more popular when I was a kid in the 50s. I used to work with a guy in the 80s who was extremely liberal. I remember he just hated that song, acted like it was crazy.
Here’s a posting with pix and a link to another group of Assyrian Christian fighters
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3258670/posts
May our Lord God be with these warriors.
I might chip in alot, depending upon how good the payee is.
Given that national leadership in the West has be co-opted by liberals and the muslim brotherhood, this is the developing trend.
Go, Matthew!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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