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The video starts out like so many of the dozens coming out of the war in Syria every day, with the camera hovering over the body of a dead Syrian soldier. But the next frame makes it clear why this video, smuggled out of the city of Homs and into Lebanon with a rebel fighter, and obtained by TIME in April, is particularly shocking. In the video a man who is believed to be a rebel commander named Khalid al-Hamad, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, bends over the government soldier, knife in hand. With his right hand he moves what appears to be the dead man’s heart onto a flat piece of wood or metal lying across the body. With his left hand he pulls what appears to be a lung across the open cavity in the man’s chest. According to two of Abu Sakkar’s fellow rebels, who said they were present at the scene, Abu Sakkar had cut the organs out of the man’s body. The man believed to be Abu Sakkar then works his knife through the flesh of the dead man’s torso before he stands to face the camera, holding an organ in each hand. “I swear we will eat from your hearts and livers, you dogs of Bashar,” he says, referring to supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Off camera, a small crowd can be heard calling out “Allahu akbar” — God is great. Then the man raises one of the bloodied organs to his lips and starts to tear off a chunk with his teeth. Read more: world.time.com...
Originally posted by grey580
holding an organ in each hand. “I swear we will eat from your hearts and livers, you dogs of Bashar,”
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Yeah.. They've been releasing video from themselves, of themselves doing things we find atrocious to the point of war crime, well into the early part of last year and since. 1-I guess they figure it plays well with recruitment to the people they want ..and it must work in that way, since manpower isn't something I believe they are short on.
2-It makes this a near impossible position. On one hand, is Assad and through him, Hezbollah. Givers of things like the Beirut Embassy and Marine Barracks bombing in 1983. On the other hand, are these guys.
3-It's why I've been so passionate and...maybe to some appearances, even contradictory to my positions on other things in the world, where it comes to Syria. 4-We need to step back, step OUT and see about re-establishing relations with whoever wins in the end. There is no winner to back for us, in my view. Not really.
Originally posted by cody599
For those of you that may want to watch the video
Originally posted by grey580
link
Well this is pretty horrendous.
Looks like things are going from bad to worse in Syria.
According to Time the Rebels in Syria are committing war crimes and horrendous ones at that.
You want a Red Line. I think this is a Red Line right here.
We should not be supporting the Rebels. It's not a Rebellion it's ethnic cleansing of the Alawites.
The video starts out like so many of the dozens coming out of the war in Syria every day, with the camera hovering over the body of a dead Syrian soldier. But the next frame makes it clear why this video, smuggled out of the city of Homs and into Lebanon with a rebel fighter, and obtained by TIME in April, is particularly shocking. In the video a man who is believed to be a rebel commander named Khalid al-Hamad, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Sakkar, bends over the government soldier, knife in hand. With his right hand he moves what appears to be the dead man’s heart onto a flat piece of wood or metal lying across the body. With his left hand he pulls what appears to be a lung across the open cavity in the man’s chest. According to two of Abu Sakkar’s fellow rebels, who said they were present at the scene, Abu Sakkar had cut the organs out of the man’s body. The man believed to be Abu Sakkar then works his knife through the flesh of the dead man’s torso before he stands to face the camera, holding an organ in each hand. “I swear we will eat from your hearts and livers, you dogs of Bashar,” he says, referring to supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Off camera, a small crowd can be heard calling out “Allahu akbar” — God is great. Then the man raises one of the bloodied organs to his lips and starts to tear off a chunk with his teeth. Read more: world.time.com...