Assad accused of moving human shields to key military targets

[iamthebandfanman]

President Assad has moved thousands of Syrian prisoners to key military targets to use as human shields against air strikes, opposition groups claimed last night.

Sources in the capital Damascus report inmates being led from their cells onto buses and being taken to sites the regime fears will be targeted by western forces.


As the international community continues to debate military intervention in the long-running civil war following the alleged use of chemical weapons, opposition groups opposed have accused the Assad regime of murdering and torturing political prisoners.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2406351/Assad-accused-moving-human-shields-key-military-targets-defence-Western-air-strikes.html?ito=feeds-videoxml

[eissa]

1. Didn't we hear this exact same thing in the lead-up to the Iraq War?

The list of similarities continues to grow.

[blazeKing]

2. I hear he puts white christian babies in blenders too

Seriously, is he supposed to move all his weaponry to fight al Qaeda into the middle of the desert or something?

[joeybee12]

3. And he's taking babies out of incubators!

The horrors!

The unsubstantiated horrors!

[JustAnotherGen]

4. I could have sworn

There was another spin on this . . . and that it was the Syrian's themselves in a show of defiance and patriotism are forming human shields of their own accord.

Wouldn't be funny either way - if they had to stand there for like - forever . . . because we haven't done anything.

[KittyWampus]

5. you just tweaked my black humor funny bone. LOL!

Yes, it would be funny if they had to stand there, forever.

[HappyMe]

6. I thought it was funny too.

Placing people in or around the military targets is the oldest trick in the book.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. Ha!

[ocpagu]

7. What I have seen are Syrian citizens forming human shields in possible military targets...

... under their free will, giving interviews to RT, etc. There's a video in the thread below:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023596338

I think this rumor is just a dehumanization strategy against the Syrian people who are against the US bombing their country...