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leveymg

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17. There are thousands of holy guns for hire out there - professional fighters (mercenaries)

Reply to onwardsand upwards (Reply #16)

Wed Jan 30, 2013, 08:18 AM

Jan 2013

men (and they're all men) who during the last twenty years have signed on for pay (often very good pay) for every holy war sponsored by the sheikhs and emirs - some of these Sunni mercenaries and terrorists have fought in Beirut, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Iraq, Libya, and now Syria. Tomorrow, onward to Tehran.

Yes, they're mercenaries, holy warriors, and terrorists. Not mutually exclusive terms, at all.

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More Lebanese Sunnis are crossing into Syria to aid rebellion, officials say [View all] UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2013 OP

Wow -- the language here REEKS of govt propaganda onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #1

Assad is well into Stage 5 of his plan for repressing dissent in Syria. pampango Jan 2013 #2

Each successive Arab Spring revolution is weirder and more violent onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #3

How would you describe the al Nusra Front? A humanitarian NGO? leveymg Jan 2013 #4

Revolutionaries onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #11

Is a Jihadi from Benghazi paid by Saudis to kill in Syria really a "revolutionary"? Or a mercenary? leveymg Jan 2013 #14

Can a "Jihadi" be a "mercenary"? onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #16

There are thousands of holy guns for hire out there - professional fighters (mercenaries) leveymg Jan 2013 #17

It depends on your definition of "mercenary" onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #19

Okay. They're mercs who are also religious fanatics and only kill whoever G-d tells them to. leveymg Jan 2013 #20

Mixed nuts onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #21

Nice try. The Stranger Jan 2013 #22

Who's baiting whom, here? leveymg Jan 2013 #23

That is sad and true. There are lots of reasons for this, to be sure. One is that in Libya and Syria pampango Jan 2013 #5

This reminds me of the Iraq war Jazzgirl Jan 2013 #6

Sounds like the article is stating that the side the West is backing is full of extremist. octothorpe Jan 2013 #7

There are lots of people who hate Assad ButterflyBlood Jan 2013 #8

I totally agree octothorpe Jan 2013 #9

Agreed! onwardsand upwards Jan 2013 #12

Who is saying all rebels are Islamic extremists? Comrade Grumpy Jan 2013 #13

The Syrian government refers to all rebels as 'terrorists'. They may differentiate pampango Jan 2013 #18

Payback. nt bemildred Jan 2013 #10

Watch who is allied with whom WITHIN Syria happyslug Jan 2013 #15