SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the when-you-DO-NOT-want-them-to-"think-of-the-children!" dept.
A couple of weeks ago this story was reported by The Daily Beast :
Members of an American-backed rebel group in Syria beheaded a young child in a grisly execution video.
The footage surfaced early Tuesday of members of Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki and a captured child in Handarat, near Aleppo. The young boy, who appears to be prepubescent, is then executed on the back of a pickup truck.
The gruesome videotaped murder of a child drew outrage on social media and the promise of an inquiry from the group's leadership, which has previously received U.S.-made weapons and American funding. The group no longer gets such backing. But it's also renewed questions about which rebels the American government has supported in Syria's ongoing civil war.
[...] State Department spokesperson John Kirby told The Daily Beast. "We strongly condemn this type of barbaric action, no matter what group is responsible. We encourage al-Zenki to investigate the incident and expect all parties to comply with their obligations under the law of armed conflict."
[...] the group's leadership issued a statement condemning the beheading. It said it formed a committee to investigate how such a crime could have happened.
More video from the incident has been released:
The victim is seen among a group of fighters from the US and Turkish backed militant group, in the same red pick-up truck that features in their video of his execution. In a chilling exchange the jihadist militants can be seen taunting the child, taking selfies, and threatening him with 'slaughter'.
When asked about his final wish, the child asks to be shot rather than slaughtered. Their shocking answer? "Slaughter. We are even worse than ISIS"
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday August 01 2016, @10:52PM
I was a Bernie supporter and I'm afraid I'll be canceling your vote as I WILL be voting Trump. Trump is against more ME wars and against TPP, Hillary has made it clear she thinks we should be at war with Syria and Iran and her choice as VP has made it clear she will fast track TPP the second she gets through the door. Also the fact that they trotted an illegals little kid to try to pull heartstrings while not even knowing the name of the pregnant woman murdered by an illegal who had been deported FIVE times in San Fran?
I'm sorry but Shilary and the rotten to the core DNC is not something I can possibly support, will Trump be bad? I do not know, can't be any worse than Hillary and maybe 4 years of Trump will give an impetus to either get a decent third party or get rid of the corruption in the DNC.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday August 01 2016, @11:48PM
Why not Johnson/Weld?
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday August 02 2016, @01:04AM
Because until our entire political system is changed I have a better chance of becoming POTUS than they do?
As long as we have first past the post and the electoral college the MOST a third party can do is be a spoiler for one of the two parties that can win, and frankly I don't want to risk helping Shillary win a damned thing other than a trip to PMITA prison.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 1) by stackOVFL on Tuesday August 02 2016, @07:38PM
Hell, I'd vote fer ya! Anyone who's handle is Harryfeet can't be bad! Heck, that names an example of good old American honestly there :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2016, @01:12AM
Don't forget the fact that Putin probably has all of Hillary's emails indexed and ready to go for blackmail.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2016, @02:01AM
> Trump is against more ME wars and against TPP,
How do you know? Trump has one defining position, Trump first, whatever it takes.
You think he's actually protectionist?
Ignore the fact that lots of his merch, and practically all of Ivanka's merch is manufactured overseas.
Just this weekend it came out he had recently applied for 65 HB2 visas [vanityfair.com] for people like waiters and housekeepers at his maralago resort, as if there was no one locally qualified for such jobs in all of palm beach.
You think Trump is going to keep any promises at all? You are just hearing what you want hear because he's on all sides of every issue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2016, @06:32PM
I used to work for Ursula Burns. She used to talk in public about the value of engineers, the importance of STEM etc. and then sent 15% of us to work for an Indian outsourcing company where we were told we'd have to find new work for new customers and were replaced by cheap, over-worked Indians. Over in Oregon, she cut the factory workers' wages and made a bunch of them redundant. Never trust these people.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday August 02 2016, @01:49PM
Trump is the candidate for division, bigotry, selfishness, xenophobia, racism, proud ignorance of facts, outright stupidity... He may claim to be against wars in the Middle East, but as soon as a new bogeyman appears, the American public will clamour for action to be taken, and Trump will not let an opportunity pass by for him to further inflate his ego. Trump is a danger to the whole world, not just America. Please do everything you can to keep him away from power. He has even picked a Tea Party loony as his running mate. How much more warning do you need?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].