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July 20, 2016

Our moderate rebel friends decapitated a kid

And hardly anyone here covers it. There's no public outrage during the nonstop Circus coverage. This is your government sending your money and weapons to lunatics and advocating on their behalf. That poor child. What are we doing?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/20/syrian-opposition-group-which-killed-child-was-in-us-vetted-alliance

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/07/20/gruesome-film-shows-us-funded-syrian-rebel-group-behead-child

A Syrian rebel group once deemed "moderate" by the U.S. was captured on film beheading a child in Handarat, near Aleppo, in a gruesome video that circulated on social media on Tuesday.

The Daily Beast reports: "There are two clips from the unsavory events. One shows five militants surrounding the boy. In the second, one of them stands over him on the truck and cuts the boy's head off with a dull knife, raising it over his head."

In the video, the rebel group accused the boy of being a fighter for the Jerusalem Brigade, a Palestinian militia fighting alongside regime forces, Al Jazeera reports. The news outlet adds that the Jerusalem Brigade issued a statement shortly after the video's release identifying the boy as 12-year-old Abdullah Issah, saying he was not a fighter and condemning the grisly attack.

The group, Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki, was reportedly receiving funding and weapons from the CIA until at least December 2014 and using American weapons until 2015.

Critics of the Obama administration's approach to the Syrian conflict have long sounded the alarm about the dangers of arming and funding so-called "moderate" rebel factions in the war-torn country.

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