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Onward Christian Soldiers: Self-Styled Revolutionary Trains Faithful To Fight ISIS (Crusaders?)
Fox News ^ | 2-27-2015 | Hollie McKay

Posted on 02/27/2015 5:04:51 PM PST by blam

Hollie McKay
February 27, 2015

Just 12 miles north of the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul, an American filmmaker and self-styled revolutionary is running a boot camp for Christians willing and able to fight for their lives and faith against the murderous Islamic terror organization.

Matthew VanDyke, an award-winning documentary filmmaker who escaped a Libyan prison after going there to help overthrow Col. Muammar Qaddafi in 2011, is helping to train hundreds of long-persecuted Assyrian Christians in everything from firearms to close quarters combat. VanDyke, who founded the security contracting firm company Sons of Liberty (SOLI), is working with an unnamed U.S. military veteran to get the Christian conscripts who range in age from 18 to 60 or older, ready to take on the ominous black clad army that lies dug in to Iraq's second-largest city just over the horizon. Earlier this week, the first battalion of the Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU) graduated from the boot camp.

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TOPICS: Egypt; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; US: Maryland; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assyrianchristians; baltimore; crusaders; egypt; gwot; iraq; isis; islam; israel; libya; maryland; matthewvandyke; mosul; murderers; muslimworld; ninevehplain; npu; peshmerga; selfdefense; syria; waronterror

1 posted on 02/27/2015 5:04:52 PM PST by blam
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To: blam

bookmark


2 posted on 02/27/2015 5:06:39 PM PST by GOP Poet
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To: blam

linkees no workee.


3 posted on 02/27/2015 5:08:40 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: blam

Ballsy guy.


4 posted on 02/27/2015 5:08:58 PM PST by skeeter
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To: blam

Obama will attack them with a Drone soon


5 posted on 02/27/2015 5:11:14 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: baltimorepoet

Ping.


6 posted on 02/27/2015 5:11:22 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: 9thLife

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/27/onward-christian-soldiers-us-filmmaker-self-styled-revolutionary-trains/


7 posted on 02/27/2015 5:14:25 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Plea$e $upport Free Republic!)
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To: blam

In their meeting in the North Atlantic, Roosevelt and Churchill attended Sunday morning services on board the HMS Prince of Wales.

Churchill was asked to select the hymns for the service. One of them was “Onward Christian Soldiers”. I have seen film of the service and both of them were singing it by heart tho Roosevelt did glance at the hymnal a couple of times.


8 posted on 02/27/2015 5:14:57 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: blam

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/27/onward-christian-soldiers-us-filmmaker-self-styled-revolutionary-trains/


9 posted on 02/27/2015 5:15:41 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Thx. Yeah, I should searched the web.


10 posted on 02/27/2015 5:19:39 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: yarddog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJgt2ktRJME


11 posted on 02/27/2015 5:48:30 PM PST by SMCC1
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To: skeeter
What say we identify each of these ISIS guys and put a bounty on'em.

I'll donate a little money to make that happen.

12 posted on 02/27/2015 5:54:45 PM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: SMCC1

OCS was far more popular when I was a kid in the 50s. I used to work with a guy in the 80s who was extremely liberal. I remember he just hated that song, acted like it was crazy.


13 posted on 02/27/2015 6:05:27 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: blam

Here’s a posting with pix and a link to another group of Assyrian Christian fighters
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3258670/posts


14 posted on 02/27/2015 6:21:38 PM PST by mosesdapoet (Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: blam

May our Lord God be with these warriors.


15 posted on 02/27/2015 6:36:39 PM PST by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: blam
I'll chip in as well.

I might chip in alot, depending upon how good the payee is.

16 posted on 02/27/2015 7:04:09 PM PST by skeeter
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To: blam

Given that national leadership in the West has be co-opted by liberals and the muslim brotherhood, this is the developing trend.


17 posted on 02/28/2015 4:59:52 AM PST by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: blam; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Go, Matthew!

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


18 posted on 02/28/2015 12:45:26 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( _\\//)
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