11 year old stone cold killer
Posted: Today 6:30:21 PM EDT
http://www.vice.com/read/the-little-lion--syrias-11-year-old-killing-machine
Mohammed Afar is 11 years old. The modified AK-47 assault rifle he carries stretches to nearly two-thirds his height.
Over the top of his faded yellow jacket a Free Syrian Army vest holds three extra clips, each full with live ammunition, and a walkie-talkie. An FSA badge sits on one side and a rendering of the Islamic Shahada, in Arabic calligraphy, on the other.
He says he does not miss school or want to stay at home with his mother and two sisters.
“I want to stay as a fighter until Bashar is killed,” he says, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The fighters surrounding him, all claiming to be from Liwa al-Tawhid, pass him a sniper rifle and offer to take him to a frontline, so he can demonstrate his shooting.
“He is a great shot,” says his father, Mohammed Saleh Afar. “He is my little lion.”
Over the course of its grinding 21-month insurgency, Syria’s children have endured numerous abuses.
Caught-up in shelling, airstrikes, and sniping, they have additionally been subject to arbitrary arrest, torture and ****, as reported by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria in August; which, additionally, noted “with concern reports that children under 18 are fighting and performing auxiliary roles for anti-Government armed groups.”
http://www.vice.com/read/the-little-lion--syrias-11-year-old-killing-machine
Mohammed Afar is 11 years old. The modified AK-47 assault rifle he carries stretches to nearly two-thirds his height.
Over the top of his faded yellow jacket a Free Syrian Army vest holds three extra clips, each full with live ammunition, and a walkie-talkie. An FSA badge sits on one side and a rendering of the Islamic Shahada, in Arabic calligraphy, on the other.
He says he does not miss school or want to stay at home with his mother and two sisters.
“I want to stay as a fighter until Bashar is killed,” he says, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The fighters surrounding him, all claiming to be from Liwa al-Tawhid, pass him a sniper rifle and offer to take him to a frontline, so he can demonstrate his shooting.
“He is a great shot,” says his father, Mohammed Saleh Afar. “He is my little lion.”
Over the course of its grinding 21-month insurgency, Syria’s children have endured numerous abuses.
Caught-up in shelling, airstrikes, and sniping, they have additionally been subject to arbitrary arrest, torture and ****, as reported by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria in August; which, additionally, noted “with concern reports that children under 18 are fighting and performing auxiliary roles for anti-Government armed groups.”
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A staged photo.
in a second if he crossed my zone.
Baby Syrians suck just the same as
growed up ones.
:Agree
At first I thought all syrians sucked and I wanted them to waste themselves and all other traveling jihadis that came to the party......But what 2 years into this I just hope President Asaid prevails....I see the entire "arab spring" as a marketing ploy for western intervention to help these jihadis establish a muslim calph over the entire arab speaking world.
I feel that the liberated weapons from Lybia are over throwing President Asaid, I feel that if he goes, Jordan will compitulate and that the spring will move into the arabian pensula.....I dont nor ever felt that the kingdom of Saud was secure.....with over 6000 usless princes in a bullcrap desert kingdom they rein is at peril.
History and modern population densisties show us how easy it is to conduct a successful uprising in a desert state......Knock out power to run refridgeration and airconditioning and water pumping stations.....knock out the municipal water supplies.....If you control these in a desert nation and can hold them the resistance will subside.
they present a smaller target.
And they're quick.