Outrage at Syrian rebel shown 'eating soldier's heart'

14 May 2013 Last updated at 11:24 ET
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The BBC's Jim Muir: "It's one of the worst things I've seen"
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A video which appears to show a Syrian rebel taking a bite from the heart of a dead soldier has been widely condemned.

US-based Human Rights Watch identified the rebel as Abu Sakkar, a well-known insurgent from the city of Homs, and said his actions were a war crime.

The main Syrian opposition coalition said he would be put on trial.

The video, which cannot be independently authenticated, seems to show him cutting out the heart.

"I swear to God we will eat your hearts and your livers, you soldiers of Bashar the dog," the man says referring to President Bashar al-Assad as he stands over the soldier's corpse.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22519770

I'll believe this story when John F. Kerry repeats it.



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Pardon me if you've already seen this on your TV—this "Gloom-News" from Britain:

"...Up to 380,000 barrels of crude oil were previously produced by wells around the city of Raqqa and in the desert region to its east that are now in rebel hands - in particular Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda off-shoot which is the strongest faction in this part of the country.

Now the violently anti-Western jihadist group, which has been steadily extending its control in the region, is selling the crude oil to local entrepreneurs, who use home-made refineries to produce low-grade petrol and other fuels for Syrians facing acute shortages...
—Telegraph.UK