Yesterday’s video of a then-unnamed Syrian rebel carving the heart out of a slain enemy and taking a big bite out of it was among the most decisively ugly visuals of the civil war so far. It was so appalling that it got rights groups condemning him, and even his fellow rebels disavowed it.
It turns out to be far from being one of those “caught on tape” moments that was immediately regretted. The rebel, identified now as commander Khaled al-Hamad, is not only unapologetic about the incident but loudly defends it as a “legitimate” action.
“I swear to God we will eat your hearts, Alawite soldiers of Bashar the dog,” he declared, adding that “hopefully we will slaughter all of them.” Hamad then went on to brag about having other videos of himself sawing up corpses of slain militia members.
The incident is just one more reason why the increasingly unstable rebellion, with its al-Qaeda linked fighters and now its cannibals, who are decidedly violating Islamic dietary law, is finding growing reluctance to secure Western backing. Though the US is said to still be considering sending arms to the rebels, it is clear that having them wind up in the hands of an unrepentant heart-eater would be a PR-blunder, and that is sure to have the administration thinking twice.
Look: what this man did showes the culture of these people, it shows that they are nothing but barbarians.., the very same people are the one whom are feed by saudis and other tyrants in the region that USA and EU is defending.., the very same force in Libya were cutting meat out of kild Libyan solders feeding lined up prisoners to be feed.., feudalism not necessary means a religious belief or a hard line social religious rules.., it also means an act as barbarian.
Well, once America "wins" the war between Assad and the terrorists it can make Khaled president and Kerry and Obama can invite him over and throw a welcome party for their good friend, a true humanitarian and democrat.
Yeah! Mybe they can serve "heart" on the menu.
our loyalties in the middle east are so flawed and morally rotten…..
we keep the fat disgusting gluttonous whore mongering saudi monarchy in power so they can unleash these barbarians on innocent people. If these animals were not in syria, they would be trying to each our organs somehow.
We are allies with the wrong folk. we need to cut the racist israelis and the barbarian wahhabi saudis loose and ally with iran
One need to ask if vulture capitalism.., as USA economic and political system is about.., ever had a moral or even moral thoughts of anything it dose. Vulture capitalism simply don't give a damn about moral, religious or god of any kind, nor give a damn about humans and humanity.., if it did.., the system would have been collapsed long time ago and never been recreated by people like USA government or for that matter the Swedish Neo fascism.
This one lends new meaning to the phrase "eat your heart out". Isn't it time we recognize what we have wrought with this mercenary army of jihadists we trained and are now using in Syria. We should get the hell out of that country and pull the plug on the jihadists there once and for all. As for Amb. Ford, our man on the ground who help start all of this two years ago, he and his Administration cronies- it goes all the way to the top- should be tried for war crimes convicted, and detained………indefinitely.
Do we. the people, really want a cannibal ruling Syria?! This savage promises to torture and kill evey Alawite. Therefore, there would be fighting to the death in Syria. Assad's Army can't afford to lose…
I bet if they loose the war the U.S. will grant him some kind of asylum status and he will move to Boston.
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When Santa Ana had his buglers sound "El Deguello" ('No Quarter") before the final assault on the Alamo, the Texas defenders knew they had no choice- fight or die. This is, in effect, what al-Hamad has done for the defenders of Syria- given them no choice, thus ending any chance of a negotiated peace.
Way to go, Washington- backing the wrong team. AGAIN.
There is even more than this. They teach and use children to cut off heads of living hand-cuffed prisoners. See videos and texts of Human Rights Investigation, a real not US state department controlled Human Rights Organisation: http://www.youtube.com/user/HRIChannel/videos
I have never seen or hear of such barbarities. The Algerian war had me up at nights from just reading the horrifying headlines, but his takes the cake.