Posted on 02/23/2020 11:28:01 PM PST by knighthawk
I first met Qassem four years ago, at the height of the European refugee crisis. The BBC had sent me to capture the stories of Mideast migrants, thousands of whom would daily wash ashore on the Greek isles. He was around 15, malnourished and clearly traumatized. As we sat together in a cabin at a migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, his hunched body rocked backward and forward.
His marginal life amounted to a speck of dust amid the geopolitical earthquakes that were remaking the region at the time. Yet the story he told opened a window onto the activities of the Iranian regime and one military commander whose first name the boy shared — the late Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
I soon realized I was gathering the first evidence that Iran was sending thousands of Afghans, many of them children, to fight in the Syrian Civil War.
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“The left’s hero...”
Of course he is, as he is working to bring down Western Civilization - the goal of all Leftists!
I question the veracity of a B’nai Brith spokesperson on Iran,but YMMV.
The middle east is a tribal society they will never be civilized.
Give him a big hand! Wait, what's this on the ground?
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